110+ Timothy Leary Quotes On Drugs, Psychadelic And Activism

Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer who is most famously known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs. He is also known for popularizing the catch phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out”, which encouraged youth to explore alternative lifestyles. Leary wrote books, lectured, and held seminars on the subject of psychedelic drugs and their effects on the human mind. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Timothy Leary on drugs, psychadelic, activism.

Top 10 Timothy Leary Quotes

1. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
2. Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
3. You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
4. You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
5. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
6. The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
7. Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
8. If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
9. My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
10. Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

Timothy Leary Image Quotes

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary Short Quotes

• Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
• Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
• To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
• Anything is possible after midnight.
• They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
• To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
• Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
• When you get the message, hang up the phone.

Timothy Leary Quotes About Drugs

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. — 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 caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. — Timothy Leary

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. — Timothy Leary

Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D. — Timothy Leary

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope. — Timothy Leary

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

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly — Timothy Leary

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them. — Timothy Leary

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. — 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 level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'. — Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary Quotes About Move

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. — Timothy Leary

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE. — Timothy Leary

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. — Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary Famous Quotes And Sayings

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — 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 a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos — Timothy Leary

Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world. — Timothy Leary

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement. — Timothy Leary

The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary

LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your head you have to go out of your mind" "You are a God, act like one" — Timothy Leary

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man. — Timothy Leary

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration. — 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 in geometrically logical temporary configurations. — Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. — Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. — Timothy Leary

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home. — Timothy Leary

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. — Timothy Leary

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

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision. — Timothy Leary

Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you. — Timothy Leary

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. — Timothy Leary

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings. — Timothy Leary

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form. — Timothy Leary

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

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful. — Timothy Leary

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come. — Timothy Leary

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

Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization. — 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 exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. — Timothy Leary

Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. — Timothy Leary

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. — Timothy Leary

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer. — Timothy Leary

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky. — Timothy Leary

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. — Timothy Leary

I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring. — Timothy Leary

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

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. — Timothy Leary

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. — Timothy Leary

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. — Timothy Leary

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. — Timothy Leary

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

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital? — Timothy Leary

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution. — Timothy Leary

Science is all metaphor. — Timothy Leary

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful. — Timothy Leary

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology. — Timothy Leary

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor. — Timothy Leary

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them. — Timothy Leary

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

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

The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight. — Timothy Leary

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. — Timothy Leary

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate. — Timothy Leary

Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space. — Timothy Leary

Tune in, turn on, and drop out. — Timothy Leary

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between. — Timothy Leary

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. — Timothy Leary

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality. — Timothy Leary

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. — 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 neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. — Timothy Leary

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

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip. — Timothy Leary

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 are religious! Spell it out! — Timothy Leary

Man's best friend is his dogma. — 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 all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed. — Timothy Leary

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

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

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 people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time. — Timothy Leary

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in. — Timothy Leary

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

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

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority. — Timothy Leary

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars — Timothy Leary

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. — Timothy Leary

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

Grow within the flow. — Timothy Leary

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done. — Timothy Leary

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

Life Lessons by Timothy Leary

1. Timothy Leary taught us to think for ourselves and to question authority. He encouraged us to explore our own potential and to take responsibility for our own lives.
2. He believed that life should be lived with a sense of adventure and that we should be open to new experiences and ideas.
3. He also taught us the importance of self-awareness and self-discovery, and that we should strive to be the best version of ourselves.