Quotes About Shulgin

#1. MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

Alexander Shulgin

#2. Lie life through its fullest

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Alexander Shulgin

#4. Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists.

Alexei Shulgin

#5. Although the facts are technically fiction. But they're only called fiction by the people who don't know the facts.

Kathy McCullough

#6. Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

Alexander Shulgin

#7. There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.

Ann Shulgin

#8. It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.

Ann Shulgin

#9. Before, I simply stepped off the ground, but with you - I'm in the stratosphere. You leave me breathless.

Addison Moore

#10. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

Alexander Shulgin

#11. Our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us ...

Alexander Shulgin

#12. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.

Alexander Shulgin

#13. Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

Alexander Shulgin

#14. Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.

Ann Shulgin

#15. My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Shaun White

#16. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh

#17. The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

Alexander Shulgin

#18. It's nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

Antonia Thomas

#19. We cannot continue to provide for their needs, then fault them for lacking ambition to improve their situation." They had borrowed a small one-horse

Tracie Peterson

#20. Who is a magician? The one who says, "I bring nonliving people to life.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#21. My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

Fred Allen

#22. How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

Alexander Shulgin

#23. The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

Marge Piercy

#24. MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

Ann Shulgin

#25. The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Alexander Shulgin

#26. I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug ...

Alexander Shulgin