Top 100 Leary Timothy Quotes
#2. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
Timothy Leary
#3. Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Timothy Leary
#4. If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary
#5. Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
Timothy Leary
#6. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
Timothy Leary
#9. Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Timothy Leary
#10. I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
Timothy Leary
#11. as a guide and protection. Trust your divinity, trust your brain,
Timothy Leary
#12. Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
Timothy Leary
#13. You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind
Timothy Leary
#14. You get the Timothy Leary you deserve.
Don Lattin
#15. Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
Timothy Leary
#16. I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.
Timothy Leary
#17. Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.
Timothy Leary
#19. In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
Timothy Leary
#21. A country run by law is a country ruined by lawyers. It is neurologically impossible for a lawyer or a military man to think creatively or to act in harmony with nature.
Timothy Leary
#22. Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
Timothy Leary
#24. Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
Timothy Leary
#25. I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
Timothy Leary
#26. The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
Timothy Leary
#27. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
Timothy Leary
#29. Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
Timothy Leary
#30. The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
Timothy Leary
#31. At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.
Timothy Leary
#32. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Timothy Leary
#33. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.
Timothy Leary
#34. a man--venerable, with a white beard, or on a cross, or as a baby, or a sage seated in the full lotus position. Are these not limiting incarnations, temporary housings, of the great energy process?
Timothy Leary
#35. People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
Timothy Leary
#36. Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
Timothy Leary
#37. I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
Timothy Leary
#38. Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
#39. Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
Timothy Leary
#40. There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
#41. The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
Timothy Leary
#42. They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
Timothy Leary
#43. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
#44. Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key - it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
Timothy Leary
#45. To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Timothy Leary
#46. One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
Timothy Leary
#47. The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Timothy Leary
#48. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Timothy Leary
#49. Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary
Timothy Leary
#52. Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
Timothy Leary
#53. Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
Timothy Leary
#54. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
Timothy Leary
#55. The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
Timothy Leary
#56. LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Timothy Leary
#57. Acid is not for every brain ... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.
Timothy Leary
#58. God #1 is the Single-cell Intelligence, the collaborative brain that knows how to run a simple protozoan. The First God is the one-celled God. The First and original craft of God is Protozoan.
Timothy Leary
#59. It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.
Ram Dass
#60. Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
Timothy Leary
#61. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary
H.R. Giger
#63. I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Timothy Leary
#65. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?
Timothy Leary
#66. To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
Timothy Leary
#67. We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
#68. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.
Timothy Leary
#69. The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
Timothy Leary
#70. We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
Timothy Leary
#71. I predicted that if control of drugs were administered by law enforcement agencies, the result would be a black market more irrational and widespread than that of alcohol prohibition and the growth of enormous police-state repressive bureaucracy. And who, indeed, wanted that?
Timothy Leary
#72. Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
Timothy Leary
#74. Living, dying, and thinking ... they're all team sports.
Timothy Leary
#75. We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
Timothy Leary
#76. Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.
Timothy Leary
#77. My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary
#78. At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.
Timothy Leary
#79. The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip ...
Timothy Leary
#80. You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary
#81. My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new.
Timothy Leary
#82. There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.
Timothy Leary
#83. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
Timothy Leary
#84. We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
Timothy Leary
#85. Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
Timothy Leary
#86. LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your head you have to go out of your mind" "You are a God, act like one"
Timothy Leary
#87. Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.
Timothy Leary
#88. You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.' - Timothy Leary.
Timothy Ferriss
#89. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.
Timothy Leary
#90. I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Timothy Leary
#91. Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
Timothy Leary
#92. You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars
Timothy Leary
#93. Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary
#94. If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.
Timothy Leary
#96. My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.
Timothy Leary
#98. Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.
Timothy Leary
#99. Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that After midnight, all things are possible.
Hunter S. Thompson
#100. I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Timothy Leary
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