There are no bad drugs. There’s simply stupid people who don’t know how to use them.
Think for yourself and question authority.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...
Man’s best friend is his dogma.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message – to escape and come home.
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
Critics have told me I’ve ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can’t be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.