Timothy Leary

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

— Timothy Leary

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

— Timothy Leary

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

— Timothy Leary

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

— Timothy Leary

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

— Timothy Leary

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

— Timothy Leary

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

— 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

Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come…

— Timothy Leary

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

— Timothy Leary

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more…

— Timothy Leary

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

— Timothy Leary

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and…

— Timothy Leary

Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about…

— Timothy Leary

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

— Timothy Leary

Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are…

— Timothy Leary

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where…

— Timothy Leary

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs…

— Timothy Leary

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns…

— Timothy Leary

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a…

— Timothy Leary

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same…

— Timothy Leary

Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved…

— Timothy Leary

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of…

— Timothy Leary

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

— Timothy Leary

Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

— Timothy Leary

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

— Timothy Leary

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

— Timothy Leary

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

— Timothy Leary

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

— Timothy Leary

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

— Timothy Leary

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

— Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

— Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

— Timothy Leary

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

— Timothy Leary

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.

— Timothy Leary

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

— Timothy Leary

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

— Timothy Leary

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

— Timothy Leary

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

— Timothy Leary