The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.