31 Most Famous Alexander Shulgin Quotes (CHEMIST)

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“Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you’re using, decide just why you’re using it, and you can have a rich experience. They’re not addictive, and they’re certainly not escapist, either, but they’re exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.”
Alexander Shulgin

It's part of the nature of every species to want to explore their environment. It's the most exciting thing that you can do. — It’s part of the nature of every species to want to explore their environment. It’s the most exciting thing that you can do.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. — It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with **honesty** and **truthfulness** about their effects, both good and bad.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it. — Psychedelic drugs don’t **change** you – they don’t change your **character** – unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can’t impose it.

There's no drug that I know of that has the potential for, in one dose, to reshape somebody's personality to be a loving, compassionate, understanding person. — There’s no drug that I know of that has the potential for, in one dose, to reshape somebody’s personality to be a **loving**, **compassionate**, understanding person.

We have the potential to have a wonderful human society. But we have to get rid of the notion that we can have a walled off little spot just for us and none for anyone else.

LSD taught me the magnificence of the instant. It gave me this sense of 'I have this life, this one life, and this moment.' — LSD taught me the magnificence of the instant. It gave me this sense of ‘I have this **life**, this one life, and this moment.’

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me. — The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the **beauty** and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. — Know what [drug] you’re using, decide just why you’re using it, and you can have a rich experience.

The important thing is that you have to take a leap of faith. — The important thing is that you have to take a leap of **faith**.

I've always been interested in the cutting edge of things that were radical. — I’ve always been interested in the cutting edge of things that were radical.

6 Alexander Shulgin Quotes on his Experimentation of Drugs

“They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily to a rewarding fantasy and escape from responsibility. All of these are treasures of the spirit or psyche that allow exploration along paths which are undefined and completely individual.”
Alexander Shulgin

I am simply a bio-organic chemist who, in his study of the central nervous system, has stumbled upon the psychedelic mind.

The impression I got, was that at the other end of the medical profession, the doctors were very deeply brainwashed to believe that these drugs were dangerous. — The impression I got, was that at the other end of the medical profession, the doctors were very deeply brainwashed to **believe** that these drugs were dangerous.

I first explored mescaline in the late '50s, three-hundred-something. I learned there was a great deal inside me. — I first explored mescaline in the late ’50s, three-hundred-something. I learned there was a great deal inside me.

Chemically, you can't tell the difference between natural and synthetic mescaline. — Chemically, you can’t tell the difference between natural and synthetic mescaline.

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before. — If I had a **vision** of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I’d make it. That’s why I have a laboratory out there – to make things that haven’t been made before.

2 Alexander Shulgin Quotes on MDMA aka Ecstacy

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug. — I’m called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

6 Deep Alexander Shulgin Quotes About Life

“I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.”
Alexander Shulgin

Our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us... — Our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us…

“How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn’t matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.”
Alexander Shulgin

I knew it was happening to me, but that's all I knew. I didn't have any framework to understand it. — I knew it was happening to me, but that’s all I knew. I didn’t have any framework to understand it.

“There is a wealth of information built into us … tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells … without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.”
Alexander Shulgin

5 Alexander Shulgin Quotes About the Laws Surrounding Drug Use Today

“To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, “I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.”
Alexander Shulgin

“How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?”
Alexander Shulgin

“Just the two major legal drugs, tobacco and alcohol, are together directly responsible for over 500,000 deaths a year in this country. Deaths associated with prescription drugs are an additional 100,000 a year. The combined deaths associated with all the illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and PCP, may increase this total by another 5,000. In other words, if all illegal drug use were to be curtailed by some stroke of a magic wand, the drug-related deaths in the country would decrease by 1 percent. The remaining 99% remain just as dead…”
Alexander Shulgin

“Scheduling of drugs is a government problem, not our problem. They want to schedule something, that’s their problem. My feeling of creation is to make new drugs. They’re new drugs, so they’re unscheduled. They’ve never been made before.”
Alexander Shulgin

“A society of free people will always have crime, violence and social disruption. It will never be completely safe. The alternative is a police state. A police state can give you safe streets, but only at the price of your human spirit.”
Alexander Shulgin