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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
