Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.