Top 30 Timothy O Leary Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
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#3. Living, dying, and thinking ... they're all team sports.
Timothy Leary
#5. Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
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#6. 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?
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#7. We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
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#8. The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
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#9. 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
#10. We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
#11. To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
Timothy Leary
#12. 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
#14. I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Timothy Leary
#16. Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
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H.R. Giger
#17. Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
Timothy Leary
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Timothy Leary
#22. 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
#23. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
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#24. Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
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#25. Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that After midnight, all things are possible.
Hunter S. Thompson
#29. 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.
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