Quote

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

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
Find
Instincts
Unexpected
Instinct
Trust
Others

More quotes by Timothy Leary

Image
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
Image
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
Timothy Leary
Image
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Timothy Leary
Image
Give death a better name or die trying.
Timothy Leary
Image
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
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
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary
Image
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
Timothy Leary
Image
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
Image
The PC is the LSD of the '90s.
Timothy Leary
Image
Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
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
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary
Image
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Timothy Leary
Image
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
Timothy Leary
Image
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
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
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
Timothy Leary