Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really…

— Timothy Leary

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.

— Timothy Leary

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

— Timothy Leary

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger…

— Timothy Leary

Think for yourself and question authority.

— Timothy Leary

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.

— Timothy Leary

“I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying.”

— Timothy Leary

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

— Timothy Leary

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology…

— 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

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this…

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't…

— Timothy Leary

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether…

— Timothy Leary

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts…

— Timothy Leary

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together…

— Timothy Leary

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

— Timothy Leary

Anything is possible after midnight.

— Timothy Leary