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 th… - Albert Hofmann

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.

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.

We are going to veto it to show our determination that we are not going to accept this fake democracy.

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