Quotes by Timothy Leary

“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”

“Turn on meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one wa...”

“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-mi...”

“Think for yourself and question authority.”

“That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.”

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

“The universe is an intelligence test”

“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.”

“A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts,...”

“He's basically a romantic comedian. …. He was a government agent entering our bedroom at midnight. We had every right to shoot him. But I've never owned a weapon in my life, and I have no intention...”

“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...”

“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...”

“We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new pagan...”

“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 pee...”

“I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.”

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

“The Tibetan Book of the Dead is ostensibly a book describing the experiences to be expected at the moment of death, during an intermediate phase lasting forty-nine (seven times seven) days, and dur...”

“Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.”

“The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people. ...The only control is self-control.”

“What I feel or believe or experience is my business, and what I do is all our businesses; and reward or punish me according to whether I play the game well — ethically and rightly — or unethically.”