Albert Hofmann Quotes

#1. The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

Ralph Metzner

#2. I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all.

Albert Hofmann

#3. Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

Albert Hofmann

#4. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

Albert Hofmann

#5. I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

Naomi Watts

#6. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

Albert Hofmann

#7. Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

Albert Hofmann

#8. I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

Albert Hofmann

#9. For what is not seen is as good as what does not exist.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. God only speaks to those who understand the language

Albert Hofmann

#11. Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

Albert Hofmann

#12. America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

#13. It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Albert Hofmann

#14. Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,

Albert Hofmann

#15. The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...

Jose Saramago

#16. Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.

Rachel Neumeier

#17. Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

Albert Hofmann

#18. If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

Edward Dyer

#19. The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#20. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors,

Albert Hofmann

#21. You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything.

Anna Jeffrey

#22. Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.

Gordy Slack

#23. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

Albert Hofmann

#24. I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

Ravi Shankar

#25. After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

Albert Hofmann

#26. Sometimes we don't pivot in the direction of personal success but toward even greater pain. But here's the catch: a calling will always lead you to a life that matters, one you can be proud of.

Jeff Goins

#27. They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

Albert Hofmann

#28. When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Albert Hofmann

#29. I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

Albert Hofmann

#30. If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

Thomas Huxley

#31. LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Albert Hofmann

#32. Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me
Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#33. I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

Albert Hofmann