Gordon Wasson Quotes

#1. As the natural world grows smaller, so too does its intensity and the size of the window through which it may be viewed.

Fennel Hudson

#2. Time changes events and people

Sunday Adelaja

#3. There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.

Gerhard Domagk

#5. Colin could have been offended or irked by her presumptive attitude, but sharp women didn't threaten him. In fact, he enjoyed watching them work. And, of course, there was the fact that he'd married one.

Colleen Gleason

#6. They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. All men dream, but nor equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. This I did.

T.E. Lawrence

#8. Ecstasy! In common parlance ecstasy is fun. But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles. After all, who will choose to feel undiluted awe? The unknowing vulgar abuse the word; we must recapture its full and terrifying sense.

R. Gordon Wasson

#9. It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Henry James

#10. The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#11. If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you.

Jonathan Burkett