Consciousness Quotes by Timothy Leary

You are a God Act like one!

— 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…

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

— Timothy Leary

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

— 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…

— Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

— Timothy Leary

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a…

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront…

— Timothy Leary

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that…

— Timothy Leary

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

— Timothy Leary

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

— 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…

— Timothy Leary

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

— Timothy Leary