Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Profoundly inspirational Timothy Leary quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous 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. Timothy Leary
If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. Timothy Leary
I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. Timothy Leary
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustment mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air conditioned anthill. Timothy Leary
Drugs are the religion of the people? The only hope is dope. Timothy Leary
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity’s evolution. Timothy Leary
Almost everyone today is brain damaged by our education, which is designed to produce docile automatons. Timothy Leary
People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses. Timothy Leary
Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbanoid bodies. Timothy Leary
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind. Timothy Leary
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
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos. Timothy Leary
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars. Timothy Leary
We are dealing with the best educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
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
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Timothy Leary
There are no bad drugs. There’s simply stupid people who don’t know how to use them. Timothy Leary
Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Timothy Leary
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 environment. Timothy Leary
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Timothy Leary
Almost everyone today is brain damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons. Timothy Leary
I have always considered myself. When I learned what the word meant, I’ve always considered myself a Pagan. Timothy Leary
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful. Timothy Leary
Anything is possible after midnight. Timothy Leary
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Timothy Leary
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. Timothy Leary
A confrontation with divinity your own higher intelligence is going to change you, and some people don’t want change. Timothy Leary
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
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. Timothy Leary
What do you think deja vu is for? Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Timothy Leary
You are a god. Act like one! Timothy Leary
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. Timothy Leary
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
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe an experience, you become an artist. Timothy Leary
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers. Timothy Leary
One cannot evolve from one’s robot hood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized. Timothy Leary
Of course, the drug does not produce a 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
When you get the message, hang up the phone. Timothy Leary
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Timothy Leary
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
The word ‘religion’ beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates ‘to bind’ from the Latin word ’re’ which means back and ‘ligare’ means ‘to tie up. Timothy Leary
The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly. Timothy Leary
The language of God is not English or Latin. The language of God is cellular and molecular. Timothy Leary
Think for yourself and question authority. Timothy Leary
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. Timothy Leary
Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All
Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you. Timothy Leary
Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity. Timothy Leary
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary
Philosophy is a team sport. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos. Timothy Leary
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Timothy Leary
We were thinking far-out history thoughts at Harvard. Believing that it was a time for visions, knowing that America had run out of philosophy, that a new empirical, tangible meta-physics was needed. Timothy Leary
If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary
Millions of Americans accepted the ‘head philosophy,’ the belief that ego and social reality are neural fictions. Timothy Leary
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Timothy Leary
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggests that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. Timothy Leary
Surfers are the throw aways of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way to where man ultimately wants to be. The act of the ride is the epitome of ‘be here now’, and the tube ride is the most acute form of that. Which is: your future is right ahead of you, the past is exploding behind you, your wake is disappearing, your footprints are washed from the sand. It’s a non productive, non depletive act that’s done purely for the value of the dance itself. And that is the destiny of man. Timothy Leary
Just as every Hollywood picture is put together by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion’s share of the profits, so is the outlaw industry managed by lawyers. Timothy Leary
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, MOVE. Timothy Leary
Crime does pay, however, and handsomely, for the attorneys who produce the national crime sin show. Timothy Leary
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
Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing. Timothy Leary
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. Timothy Leary
Followers do not like themselves, of course. That’s why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their sub servants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them. Timothy Leary
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Timothy Leary
I’m looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life which is dying. Timothy Leary
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
Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure. Timothy Leary
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. Timothy Leary
Learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerability, open mindedness, chaotic, confused, vulnerable to inform yourself. Timothy Leary
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. Timothy Leary
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, move. Timothy Leary
I wanted to scientize myths and mythologize science. Timothy Leary
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
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules, and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brains. His petty prides are primate. Timothy Leary
Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision. Timothy Leary
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. Timothy Leary
Beware of emotions. Any child can tell you that. Watch out for the emotional person. He is a lurching lunatic. Timothy Leary
Man’s best friend is his dogma. Timothy Leary
The only state in which we can learn, harmonize, grow, merge, join, understand is the absence of emotion. This is called bliss or ecstasy, attained through centering the emotions. Timothy Leary
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
Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior. Timothy Leary
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements particles that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. Timothy Leary
Emotions are addictive and narcotic and stupefacient. Timothy Leary
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. Timothy Leary
The romantic poetry and fiction of the last 200 years has quite blinded us to the fact that emotions are an active and harmful form of stupor. Timothy Leary
In the information communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross linked by the global immediacies of modern quantum communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behavior to be successful. Timothy Leary
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. Timothy Leary
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
If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you’d never fall in love. Timothy Leary
Grow within the flow. Timothy Leary
Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them. Timothy Leary
Drop Out detaches yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision. Timothy Leary
We translated the basic Hindu teaching that everything is an illusion into the modern neurological truth that everything is a figment of your own brain. Timothy Leary
The word religion beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates to bind from the Latin re means back and ligare means to tie up. All religions are straight jackets, jackets for the straight. Timothy Leary
As a guide and protection, rust your divinity, trust your brain. Timothy Leary
Proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Timothy Leary
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
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology. Timothy Leary
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up. Timothy Leary
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. Timothy Leary
Anything is possible after midnight. Timothy Leary
The free consciousness has only to hear and remember the teachings in order to be liberated. Timothy Leary
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
They should be warned that if you come into this temple, you’re going to face blazing activation of your brain. You’re never going to be the same. Timothy Leary
We are dealing with the best educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
Remember, beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality. Timothy Leary
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. Timothy Leary
You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. Timothy Leary
Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace electronic space. Timothy Leary
When you teach someone how to perform creatively, you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly. Timothy Leary
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Timothy Leary
There are direct brain or computer link ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace. Timothy Leary
Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace electronic space. Timothy Leary
