In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have… — 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
People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a… — 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
