Top 36 Doblin Quotes
#1. It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.
Rick Doblin
#2. Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing," he said. "I have nothing important or original to say, yet I feel compelled to express myself, so I just write it down and let it go.
Gwendolen Gross
#3. One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
Alfred Doblin
#4. Roses are red
Violets are blue
Be very afraid
We're coming for you.
Gena Showalter
#5. But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
Alfred Doblin
#6. Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.
Gemma Ward
#7. Terence McKenna pointed out that the profundity of [halluncinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing the personality should have long ago made psychedelics an indispensable tool for psychotherapy.
Rick Doblin
#10. It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
Celia Green
#11. I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
Ashley Judd
#12. In love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.
Ilka Chase
#13. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
Alfred Doblin
#14. And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
Alfred Doblin
#15. Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
Carly Simon
#16. People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.
Rick Doblin
#17. No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.
Natasha Friend
#18. Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
Habib Ali Al-Jifri
#19. You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
Alfred Doblin
#20. Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.
Rick Doblin
#21. That's how the Germans are ... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.
Alfred Doblin
#22. If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
Cristela Alonzo
#23. Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Alfred Doblin
#24. No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
Alfred Doblin
#26. I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.
Alfred Doblin
#27. In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.
Alfred Doblin
#28. The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Alfred Doblin
#29. Our body is an ecosystem. This ecosystem must be maintained ...
Ilchi Lee
#30. We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.
Rick Doblin
#31. The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Alfred Doblin
#32. I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
Piet Mondrian
#33. My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao.
Rick Doblin
#34. Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic
nothing but an industrial accident.
Alfred Doblin
#35. But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.
Alfred Doblin
#36. Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.
Alfred Doblin
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