Quote

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

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
Lasts
Lows
Stupor
Last
Actions
Contracted
Fact
Poetry
Fanatic
Action
Emotional
Blinded
Facts
Fiction
Fanatics
Form
Emotion
Jungle
Years
Consciousness
Romantic
Dangerous
Emotions

More quotes by Timothy Leary

Image
I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
Timothy Leary
Image
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
Image
Man's best friend is his dogma.
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
You are a God Act like one!
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
Timothy Leary
Image
Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
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
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Timothy Leary
Image
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
Image
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
Timothy Leary
Image
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
Give death a better name or die trying.
Timothy Leary
Image
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary
Image
The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary
Image
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
Timothy Leary
Image
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
Timothy Leary
Image
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Timothy Leary