It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... 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.

— Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann Quotes

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

— Albert Hofmann

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.

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann
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God only speaks to those who understand the language.

— Albert Hofmann

I believe that if people would learn to use LSD’s vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

— Albert Hofmann

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.

— Albert Hofmann

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

— Albert Hofmann

It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... 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.

— Albert Hofmann

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.

— Albert Hofmann

LSD trips and the space flights of the astronauts are comparable in many respects. Both enterprises require very careful preparations, as far as measures for safety as well as objectives are concerned, in order to minimize dangers and to derive the most valuable results possible. The astronauts cannot remain in space nor the LSD experimenters in transcendental spheres, they have to return to earth and everyday reality, where the newly acquired experiences must be evaluated.

— Albert Hofmann

Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.

— Albert Hofmann
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