The Chemical Muse Quotes

“True independence”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

“the common man was the tyrant’s greatest enemy in the ancient world”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

“If I’d known the harm I’d suffer from her and her sisters I’d never have set my hand to their holy game— but what to do now? I’m hooked. Creative inspiration has got me. Though verse-ruined”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

“Medea was not a “witch” in the modern sense of the word; she was a pharmakeus”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

“Theophrastus”
― D.C.A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization