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Timothy Leary

(1920–1996) Psychologist United States

165 quotes in 906 categories

Timothy Leary's 165 statements push the boundaries of thought, urging readers to question reality and consider new dimensions of awareness.

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Timothy Leary was a psychologist from the United States, best known for The psychedelic experience; a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead.

Quick Facts About Timothy Leary

Born: October 22, 1920
Died: May 31, 1996
Nationality: United States
Profession: Psychologist
Notable works: The psychedelic experience; a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead
Spouse: Nena von Schlebrügge

About Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to "publicity hound". According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was "a hero of American consciousness", while writer Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut". President Richard Nixon disagreed, calling Leary "the most dangerous man in America". During the 1960s and 1970s, at the height of the counterculture movement, Leary was arrested 36 times.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Timothy Leary

“S.M.I.²L.E.”

Restriction

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“Why not? Yeah”

Yeah

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Science is all metaphor.

Metaphor

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“Just Say Know”

Just

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“Grow with the flow”

Flow

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Grow within the flow.

Flow

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My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

Career

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I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Beatles

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Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac

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Think for yourself and question authority.

Authority

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Man's best friend is his dogma.

Best friend

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Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

Doing

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You are a God Act like one!

God

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Anything is possible after midnight.

Anything is possible

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If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Fall

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They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

Food

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People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.

Inspirational

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

Hundred

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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

Doubt

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One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

Creativity

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Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

Experiment

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LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

Drug

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

Dna

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You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

Activate

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

Enormous

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I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a…

Agents

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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Challenges

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My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

English language

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Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you…

Caesar

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In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd…

Age

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At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned…

Awe

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The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.…

Aim

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Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can…

Age life

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In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too…

21st century

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“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the…

Fast food

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Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute…

Authority

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Acid is not for every brain … Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism…

Acid

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

Able

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Give death a better name or die trying.

Death

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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Drop

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Timothy Leary by topic

Psychedelic (23) People (18) Brain (18) Life (16) Inspirational (16) Drug (14) Turns (13) Psychology (13) Love (12) Nervous system (11) Nervous (11) Mind (11) Turn on (10) Tunes (9) Reality (9) Lsd (9) Ifs (9) Years (8) Use (8) Thinking (8) Science (8) Religion (8) Humans (8) Evolution (8) Consciousness (8)