Hofmann Quotes

أيامي تتشكل أكثر فأكثر تبعا لمواقيت الصلاة، وليس تبعا للساعة التي تسبب القلق و التوتر.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

لأن تناول الطعام عبادة، يحرص المرء على ألا يسرف فيه، وعلى ألا يتناول منه مايزيد على حاجته، وعلى أن يتوقف عنه على الرغم من شعوره بأنه يستطيع أن يستمر فيه، وعلى ألا يشبع حتى الامتلاء

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

سوف تتمتع الدول الاسلامية بالحرية الحقيقة فقط عندما يتمكن قادة الفكر لديها من فك رقابهم من الانبهار غير القابل للنقد بكل شئ غربي وأن يعود للاغتراف من المصادر الثرية للثقافة الاسلامية الخاصة بهم ولقد حان القت لفعل ذلك

When life gives you lemons... chuck them at someone's head. You'll be surprised how good it feels.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

ويمر بي أحد الحجاج الأتراك، ويسألني باقتضاب: أين الشيطان؟ وكأنه ينبغي على الجميع أن يعلم أين هو، بل وأن يتحدث التركية أيضا! ولقد أرشدته في أدب شديد، وباللغة التركية، إلى العامود الثالث (الجمرة الثالثة) التي سنرميها اليوم. ولم يكن باستطاعتي قبل اليوم أن أحدد مكان الشيطان بهذه الدقة!

ويبقى أنني عندما أحدث زوجتي عن نشاطات وإنجازات إحدى بطلات الاتجاه النسائي البارزات (المغالي في دعوتها إلى المساواة بين الرجل والمرأة)، فإن ردّ فعلها يجيء عبر سؤال ساخر مستفز: هل هي جميلة؟!

في أثناء عملي الوظيفي، كان عليّ، تنفيذاً لقاعدة بروتوكولية، أن أصلي صلاتي عيدي الفطر والأضحى خلف قادة دول، مثل الرئيس الجزائري الشاذلي ابن جديد، والملك حسن الثاني ملك المغرب. وكان ذلك يجري أمام عدسات كاميرات التيليفزيون. وكنت في كل مرة ألمس الروح الديمقراطية التي تضيفها الصلاة الإسلامية حتى على مثل هذه الأجواء. فسجود ملك على الأرض مرتدياً جواربه أمر جد مختلف عن خطو رئيس فرنسا في كاتدرائية ريمس نحو موضع جلوسه المميز.

إن للمجتمع الصناعي الغربي تأثيراً ساماً على كافة الأديان بما في ذلك دينه هو نفسه, من خلال نشره لقيم مؤسسة على فروض مادية محضة.

إن جسم الإنسان قريب الشبه بالنبات المروي حديثاً بعد طول ظمأ, يكفيه أقل القليل ليستعيد حيويته بسرعة فائقة.

Away in the distance, a train appeared behind the trees, all its compartments were lit, the windows were sure to be open. One of us started singing a ballad, but we all wanted to sing. We sang far quicker than the speed of the train, we swung our arms because our voices weren't enough, our voices got into a tangle where we felt happy. If you mix your voice with others' voices, you feel as though you're caught on a hook. (trans. Michael Hofmann)

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

I hope that in due time the chemists will justify their proceedings by some large generalisations deduced from the infinity of results which they have collected. For me I am left hopelessly behind and I will acknowledge to you that through my bad memory organic chemistry is to me a sealed book. Some of those here, Hofmann for instance, consider all this however as scaffolding, which will disappear when the structure is built. I hope the structure will be worthy of the labour. I should expect a better and a quicker result from the study of the powers of matter, but then I have a predilection that way and am probably prejudiced in judgment.

I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. what had caused this condition?

This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.

She loves her lonely moments, the silence away from the crowds. When it's just her daydreaming.

Albert Hofmann once put it . . . All attempts today to make amends for the damage through environmentally protective measures must remain only hopeless, superficial patchwork, if no curing of the “Western entelechy neurosis” ensues. . . . Healing would mean existential experience of a deeper, self-encompassing reality.

It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

بإعتبار "العهد الجديد" مصدراً ثانوياً وليس أولياً مباشراً, فإنه لا يجوز وضعه على قدم المساواة مع القران إطلاقاً, وربما كان من الأجدى مقارنته بمجموعة الأحاديث المشكوك في صحتها - الأحاديث الضعيفة

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

I DO have a plan! Just...not a good one...

We were both wanderers, restlessness dripping from our wild lips like rain. And even if no place would ever truly be home for us, I found it in the way you held my hand that day.

The fact that any person acted on the order of his government or of a superior does not free him from responsibility for crime.

إن المرأة المسلمة الأوروبيةَ، التي تغطي شعرها ممتثلة للشرع طوعاً، إنما تريد في المجتمع الغربي راحة البال، محاولةً ابتغاء مرضاة الله، مبتغية في الوقت ذاته الخروجَ من الدوامة الشيطانية التي تعصف بالمجتمع الغربي المتخذ جسدَ المرأة تجارةً رائجةً سوقُها، قاصدةً أن تعيد للمرأة من جديد كرامتها بوصفها امرأة، لا موضوعاً للجنس وتجارته... إنها إنما تبرز زينتها لزوجها، غير عارضة لها نهباً للأنظار هنا وهناك، كأنما تريد أن تعلن عن نفسها ليتقدم إليها الراغبون في الزواج. إن تلك المسلمةَ ذاتَ الخمارِ أو الحجاب إنما تريدُ أن تقول لمن حولها في البيئة التي تعيش فيها: أيها الناس! إنني امرأة لي كرامتي، عليكم أن تأخذوني مأخذ الجد، وليس لكم أن تنظروا إليَّ أو إلى ساقيَّ نظرة رخيصة خبيثة! إن لبس الخِمار أو وضع الحجاب أو النقاب بهذا المفهوم، عملٌ ثوري ورمز للاحتجاج أو الاعتراض على أسلوب الحياة وشروطها في أوروبا المعاصرة، وليس بأية حال رجوعاً مرتداً إلى التقاليد البدوية العتيقة التي صاحبت القبائل، وميزت كل قبيلة عن سواها باتخاذ هذا أو ذاك من اللباس.

el espacio interior del alma es igual de infinito y enigmático que el espacio cósmico exterior, y (...) tanto los cosmonautas del espacio exterior cuanto los del interior no pueden permanecer allí, sino que tienen que regresar a la tierra, a la conciencia cotidiana. además, ambos viajes exigen una buena preparación, para que puedan desarrollarse con un mínimo de peligro y convertirse en una empresa realmente enriquecedora.

يتزايد النقد للرأسمالية الان كنظام صالح بخاصة علي ضوء التفاوتات في الدخل الآن 20% أصول أغني ثلاثة رجال ف العالم كلهم بليونيرات بالدولار تتعدي الناتج القومي العام لكل الدول الاقل نموا التي يبلغ تعدادها 600 مليون مواطن بينما يحصل 1.3 بليون نسمة علي سطح هذا الكوكب علي أقل من دولار واحد ف اليوم للانفاق يقدر دخل الجريمة المنظمة بمقدار 1.5 تريليون دولار أمريكي (أكرر : تريليون)كل عام

One of the worst symptoms of HIV is secrecy...if you get HIV? You get secretive. Insular. Paranoid. Your life becomes a giant pretense so no one finds out you have this disease. You don't know what people will do for you because you are too afraid to tell them.

An illegal act does not become legal when it is done with good intentions.

Ferencz asked, “Do I have to look up to heaven or down to the Devil to find the culprit?” The rabbi replied in Yiddish, “Do not look up or down—take my advice—kik vek!

I believe cooking can be fun, healthy, easy and tasty! I hope you find some recipes in here that are some nice healthy alternatives and become part of your weekly flow.

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.

From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.

J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who “had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent.

Above all, for Western people with their hypertrophied rationality, the development and expansion of a direct, emotional experience of reality, unobstructed by words and concepts, would be of evolutionary significance. (Aldous Huxley's "Human Resources")

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires. This is why the subjects in the Hofmann and Baumeister study had such a hard time fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you’re smart about your habits.

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach.

Cicadas bury themselves in small mouths of the tree's hollow, lie against the bark tongues like amulets, though it is I who pray I might shake off this skin and be raised from the ground again. I have nothing to confess. I don't yet know that I possess a body built for love. When the wind grazes its way toward something colder, you, too, will be changed. One life abrades another, rough cloth, expostulation. When I open my mouth, I am like an insect undressing itself.

Muy sensible es la reacción de una comunidad de chimpancés en una jaula cuando un miembro de la familia toma LSD. Aunque en el propio animal no puedan comprobarse cambios, toda la jaula se alborota, porque el chimpancé con LSD aparentemente deja de cumplir con precisión las leyes del muy sutil orden jerárquico familiar.

Lo más importante fue para mí el reconocimiento, confirmado por todos mis experimentos con LSD, que lo que de común se denomina «realidad», incluida la realidad de la propia persona, de ningún modo es algo fijo, sino algo de múltiple significación, y que no existe una realidad, sino varias; cada una de ellas encierra una distinta conciencia del yo.

It’s illegal, for example, to use poison gas or shoot your enemy with a poisoned arrow. But, it’s not yet illegal to be the first to drop a nuclear bomb on a city.

If everyone felt they could go out and attack their neighbor, and also kill their children and other perceived enemies, what kind of a world would we have?

War is an abominable crime, no matter what the cause.

We have to eliminate war-making. You may well ask: “How can you do such a thing?” It has never happened. Well, nothing ever happened until it happened for the first time.

I quote: “In a very real sense, the world no longer has a choice between force and law. If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

The seven countries that voted against the Internation Criminal Court treaty in 1998 were Iraq, Israel, Libya, the People’s Republic of China, Qatar, the United States, and Yemen.

Defendants challenged the authenticity of their own official secret reports. They denied that atrocities had been committed

These very ordinary-looking men were Hitler’s eager executioners accused of “the murder of more than one million persons, tortures, atrocities, and other inhumane acts.

I am not occasionally insubordinate. I am usually insubordinate.

Some people, when given power, seem to forget about the presumption of innocence. It appeared that in the army, the higher the rank, the stronger the presumption of guilt.

The “Aryanizers” of Jewish property almost invariably argued that they had paid a fair price, had paid off mortgages, had made many repairs, or were purchasers in good faith.

International disputes could be settled by peaceful means only. That was the main point of Nuremberg.

These broken lives are hidden behind a façade of laughter and song, but what were these people like before and what will they be like when they return to their communities?

He learned that there never has been, and never will be, a war without atrocities. The only way to prevent such cruel crimes is to prevent war itself.

The stock holders in the quarry were the SS and the leaders of the Nazi party. The blood of the slaves were their dividends, and the fat grew rich on human misery.

I miss how wild our hearts were, how infinite we felt. How we never saw an end to wandering.

She sat there, a wild heart on a chair with gin lips and nightlife eyes. The Gatsby Girl. Longing for more in the shallowness of it all.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

You just have to remember that little person inside of you that wanted to take over the world; then, listen to them.

How should we judge the conduct of María Sabina, the fact that she allowed strangers, white people, access to the secret ceremony, and let them try the sacred mushroom?

Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.

I either want a love like poetry or no love at all.

I remembered the wild girl every time I saw her soul in the neon pastel sky.

Death was their tool and life their toy. If these men be immune, then law has lost its meaning and man must live in fear.

In this interdependent global society, linked by new networks of instant communication, no nation and no person can feel secure until all are secure.

Justice, reconciliation and rehabilitation are vital links to the permanent peace that binds humanity together.

Fuller was able to dissect every legal problem and split decision to reach the core thoughts that led reasonable men to reach diverse conclusions.

To be able to understand the other fellow’s point of view, no matter how much you might disagree, is an invaluable skill that sometimes helps make life bearable.

The three industries/industrialists tried were I.G. Farben (Carl Krauch, et al.), Flick KG (Friedrich Flick, et al.), and Krupp Group (Alfried Krupp, et. al.).

The sad fact is that many nations are not yet ready to give up their right to go about killing innocent people if they think that it is necessary to protect their own national interests.

The basic concept of microdosing is nothing new. Albert Hofmann, who first synthesized LSD in 1938, considered it one of the drug’s most promising, and least researched, applications. He was among the first to realize its antidepressant and cognition-enhancing potential,[vi] famously taking between 10 and 20 μg himself, twice a week, for the last few decades of his life.[vii]

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The reader may recognize that this reasoning of anticipatory self-defense—used by Ohlendorf and other Einsatzgruppen defendants—was also used by President George W. Bush and his staff in justifying the U.S. attack on Iraq.

The most important point of Nuremberg was the conclusion that aggressive war, which had been a national right throughout history, was henceforth going to be punished as an international crime. That was a revolution in thinking.

The defendants in the dock were the cruel executioners whose terror wrote the blackest page in human history. Death was their tool and life their toy. If these men be immune, then law has lost its meaning and man must live in fear.

It was obvious that a substance with such fantastic effects on mental perception and on the experience of the outer and inner world would also arouse interest outside medical science, but I had not expected that LSD, with its unfathomably uncanny, profound effects, so unlike the character of a recreational drug, would ever find worldwide use as an inebriant. I had expected curiosity and interest on the part of artists outside of medicine—performers, painters, and writers—but not among people in general. After the scientific publications around the turn of the century on mescaline—which, as already mentioned, evokes psychic effects quite like those of LSD—the use of this compound remained confined to medicine and to experiments within artistic and literary circles. I had expected the same fate for LSD. And indeed, the first non-medicinal self-experiments with LSD were carried out by writers, painters, musicians, and other intellectuals.

Konrad Adenauer, was eager to restore his country to the family of civilized nations. He was a devout Catholic whom the Nazis had driven out of office as the mayor of Cologne. He had escaped further persecution with the help of a Jewish friend.

The rapid rise of drug use, which had its beginning in this country about twenty years ago, was not, however, a consequence of the discovery of LSD, as superficial observers often declared. Rather it had deep-seated sociological causes: materialism, alienation from nature through industrialization and increasing urbanization, lack of satisfaction in professional employment in a mechanized, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in a wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and meaningful philosophical foundation of life.

Both Krupp and Flick were extremely wealthy (both billionaires and heads of vast industrial enterprises) but were unwilling to provide any reasonable monetary support to Jews who had suffered under these industrialists’ inhumane treatment while helping make them the richest men in Germany.9

Ergoloid mesylates (Hydergine) Developed by Albert Hofmann and marketed without FDA approval as a neuroprotective “smart drug,” ergoloid mesylates is reportedly comparable at standard doses to microdoses of LSD. It’s only available on prescription in most Western countries, but you may be able to buy it online elsewhere. 2C-B-FLY Active even at sub-milligram doses, the effects of 2C-B-FLY have been likened to mescaline and MDA (MDMA’s more potent, more psychedelic predecessor). Microdoses of less than 100 μg (0.1 mg) may enhance motivation, empathy, creativity, and philosophical or abstract thinking. 2C-B-FLY is unscheduled in the U.S. but may be considered an illegal analog of 2C-B. In Canada, it’s a Schedule III substance. In any case, it’s widely available online.

Hugo Hofmann von Hofmannsthal, tenente, prima in servizio a Pisino d’Istria, poi presso il ministero della Guerra, celebra l’Austria a Vienna, a Berlino, a Praga, nei Paesi occupati o neutrali, a Varsavia e a Bruxelles, a Zurigo, ad Oslo e a Stoccolma, dove va in missione straordinaria, ambasciatore di un’antica patria della musica e della poesia. Ma si domanda con un soprassalto, la notte, quante volte si domanda se ogni suo discorso non sia solo la commemorazione di un defunto. Poiché questa domanda lo accompagna da anni, prima ancora della guerra: «Verso quali decenni sono avviati i nostri figli, a quale avvenire, in questa Austria, figliastra della storia, così strana e diversa, così sola? La nostra vecchia Austria è assediata da torbidi presagi e ombre di morte».

The high sentences—ten years' imprisonment each for convictions in Texas and California concerning possession of LSD and marijuana, and conviction (later overturned) with a sentence of thirty years' imprisonment for marijuana smuggling—show that the punishment of these offenses was only a pretext: the real aim was to put under lock and key the seducer and instigator of youth, who could not otherwise be prosecuted.

LSD trips and the space flights of the astronauts are comparable in many respects. Both enterprises require very careful preparations, as far as measures for safety as well as objectives are concerned, in order to minimize dangers and to derive the most valuable results possible. The astronauts cannot remain in space nor the LSD experimenters in transcendental spheres, they have to return to earth and everyday reality, where the newly acquired experiences must be evaluated.

Der Ausdruck [Anm.: der Titel des LSD-Erfahrungsberichts „Fahrten in den Weltraum der Seele“] ist gut gewählt, weil der Innenraum der Seele genauso unendlich und geheimnisvoll ist wie der äußere Weltraum und weil die Kosmonauten des äußeren wie des inneren Weltraums nicht dort verbleiben können, sondern auf die Erde, ins Alltagsbewußtsein zurückkehren müssen. Auch verlangen beide Fahrten eine gute Vorbereitung, damit sie mit einem Mindestmaß an Gefahr durchgeführt werden können und zu wirklich bereichernden Unternehmen werden.

Experience of the world as matter, as object, to which man stands opposed, has produced modern natural science and technology—creations of the Western mind that have changed the world. With their help human beings have subdued the world. Its wealth has been exploited in a manner that may be characterized as plundering, and the sublime accomplishment of technological civilization, the comfort of Western industrial society, stands face-to-face with a catastrophic destruction of the environment. Even to the heart of matter, to the nucleus of the atom and its splitting, this objective intellect has progressed and has unleashed energies that threaten all life on our planet.

What’s the most basic freedom we have?” Witzbold asked. An earnest expression dominated his face. Zeiger extended a hand and fished another dried plum from the bag. He chewed, reflecting. “To end our lives when we want to,” he said. “Even that can be controlled,” Witzbold said. “No, it’s the freedom to feel what we feel. You’re right in this preface. Infants know only what their parents want them to know. They would remain infants for eternity if they couldn’t self-determine. True existence begins when we can make choices. Feel what we must and think what we may. Men stripped of that are nothing but children, as you say. When was the last time you had your own feelings?

[Hallucinogenic drugs] now formed a circle, one could almost say a magic circle: the starting point had been the synthesis of lysergic acid amides, among them the naturally occurring ergot alkaloid ergobasin. This led to the synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD. The hallucinogenic properties of LSD were the reason why the hallucinogenic magic mushroom teonanacatl found its way into my laboratory. THe work with teonanacatl, from which psilocybin and psilocin were isolated, proceeded to the investigation of another Mexican magic drug, ololiuhqui, in which hallucinogenic principles in the form of lysergic acid amides were again encountered, including ergobasin—with which the magic circle closed.

People have wracked their brains for an explanation of benzene and how the celebrated man, August Kekulé, managed to come up with the concept of the benzene theory. With regard to the last point especially, a friend of mine who is a farmer and has a lively interest in chemistry has asked me a question which I would like to share with you. My 'agricultural friend' apparently believes he has traced the origins of the benzene theory. 'Has Kekulé,' so ran the question, 'once been a bee-keeper? You certainly know that bees too build hexagons; they know well that they can store the greatest amount of honey that way with the least amount of wax. I always liked it,' my agricultural friend went on, 'When I received a new issue of the Berichte; admittedly, I don't read the articles, but I like the pictures very much. The patterns of benzene, naphthalene and especially anthracene are indeed wonderful. When I look at the pictures I always have to think of the honeycombs of my bee hives.

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The first event, which looked back but also forward like a kind of historical hinge, was the centennial of the birth of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who, in 1943, accidentally found that he had discovered (five years earlier) the psychoactive molecule that came to be known as LSD. This was an unusual centennial in that the man being feted was very much in attendance. Entering his second century, Hofmann appeared in remarkably good shape, physically spry and mentally sharp, and he was able to take an active part in the festivities, which included a birthday ceremony followed by a three-day symposium. The symposium’s opening ceremony was on January 13, two days after Hofmann’s 100th birthday (he would live to be 102). Two thousand people packed the hall at the Basel Congress Center, rising to applaud as a stooped stick of a man in a dark suit and a necktie, barely five feet tall, slowly crossed the stage and took his seat. Two hundred journalists from around the world were in attendance, along with more than a thousand healers, seekers, mystics, psychiatrists, pharmacologists, consciousness researchers, and neuroscientists, most of them people whose lives had been profoundly altered by the remarkable molecule that this man had derived from a fungus half a century before. They had come to celebrate him and what his friend the Swiss poet and physician Walter Vogt called “the only joyous invention of the twentieth century.

Martial law has been proclaimed and people walk about like ghosts for fear they might say something wrong and be overheard by the Nazis.

There was nothing they were afraid of. They defended their children with hands, feet and teeth. After all, what could they lose by it?

Probably everyone succeeds in justifying himself when it comes to clearing one’s conscience, for a while, anyway.

Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires. This is why the subjects in the Hofmann and Baumeister study had such a hard time fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you’re smart about your habits.