39 Quotes by Albert Hofmann

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

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.

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

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

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

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

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors,

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