Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality…

— Albert Hofmann

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…

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could…

— Albert Hofmann

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD…

— 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…

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world.…

— Albert Hofmann

“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just…

— Albert Hofmann

LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared…

— Albert Hofmann

Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature…

— Albert Hofmann

What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but…

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be…

— Albert Hofmann

LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal…

— Albert Hofmann

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures,…

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

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

— Albert Hofmann

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

— Albert Hofmann

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these…

— Albert Hofmann

LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical…

— Albert Hofmann