“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.”
Address on the first day of LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug, an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann (13 January 2006)
LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)
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Swiss chemist 1906–2008Related quotes
“You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”
"Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
Fresh Air interview (February 4, 2002)
“Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.”
"The Human Situation"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: And if this I were destroyed,
The image shattered,
My perceived, rent world would fly
In an explosion of final judgement
To the ends of the sky,
The colour in the iris of the eye.
Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.
“A greater history opens before my eyes,
A greater task awaits me.”
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Lines 44–45 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
