Timothy Leary Quotes
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
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.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
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.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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.
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.
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
