Albert Hofmann Quotes

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

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

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

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.

God only speaks to those who understand the language

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

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

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.

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

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

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

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

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

I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

The truth will finally come out and the truth is: If LSD is used in the right way, it is a very important and very useful agent.

In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.