Acid quotes
70 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside."
"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life."
"LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
"one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid"
"Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid."
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"The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction."
"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you."
"Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society."
"Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it."
"Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th century is the metabolic organic effect on malignant tumours of correcting the body fluid pH to a non-acidic pH 7.1 to 7.5. A neutral pH 7.0 resists cancer formation. An acid body fluid pH of 6.44 and below permits tumours to biochemically become malignant. At pH 7.5 cancer may become inactive; at 8.5 tumours may disintegrate."
"Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new."
"It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid."
"P.S. I enjoy acid pops."
"The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith."
"The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government."
"In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days."
