Quote

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Timothy Leary

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Leary
Age: 75 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 22
Died: 1996
Died: May 31
Actor
Psychologist
Writer
Springfield
Massachusetts
Timothy Francis Leary
Unbearable
Civilization
Society
Less

More quotes by Timothy Leary

Image
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Timothy Leary
Image
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
Image
We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
Timothy Leary
Image
Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.
Timothy Leary
Image
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary
Image
I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Timothy Leary
Image
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
Timothy Leary
Image
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
Timothy Leary
Image
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
Timothy Leary
Image
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Timothy Leary
Image
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
Timothy Leary
Image
When you get the message, hang up the phone.
Timothy Leary
Image
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
Timothy Leary
Image
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
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 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
Timothy Leary
Image
The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary