Psychedelic Quotes

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'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave… — Jerry Saltz
Facts are many, but the truth is one. — Rabindranath Tagore
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there… — Alan Watts
If God dropped acid, would he see people? — Steven Wright
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. — Albert Einstein
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and… — Alexander Shulgin
Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging… — Alexander Shulgin
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field… — Bill Hicks
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. — Timothy Leary
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license… — Frank Zappa
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson
This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic… — Suzanne Brockmann
I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought,… — Bill Hicks
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. — Terence McKenna
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that Iâ€™m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of â€“ it hammered home to me… — Alan Moore
Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply… — Tim Harford
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). — Patti Smith

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