Psychedelic Quotes

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

— Alan I. Leshner

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

— Terence McKenna

To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic.

— Humphry Osmond

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

— Genesis P-Orridge

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

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

— Albert Hofmann

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Albert Hofmann

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

— Robin Pecknold

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

— Hakim Bey

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

— Terence McKenna

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

— Jeremy S. Anderson

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of…

— Terence McKenna

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality,…

— Noel Fielding

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your…

— Dennis McKenna

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it…

— Terence McKenna

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven…

— Terence McKenna

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect…

— Terence McKenna

Whilst I'm all for psychedelic science - I think it's fantastic - I don't think we necessarily have time to wait for…

— Gail Bradbrook

Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at…

— Andrew Weil

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered…

— Alan Moore

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that…

— Terence McKenna

We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that…

— Alasdair MacLean

When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal…

— Rick Strassman

When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of…

— Terence McKenna

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me,…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

“I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual…

— Albert Hofmann

“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug…

— Alexander Shulgin

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the…

— Terence Smith

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to…

— Maynard James Keenan

“Astral Weeks,” insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their…

— Lester Bangs

“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the…

— Terence McKenna

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when…

— Iggy Pop

“...The efficacy of psychedelics with regard to art has to do with their ability to render language weightless, as fluid and ephemeral…

— Dave Hickey

“The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature.…

— Sebastian Marincolo