Timothy Leary Quotes About Drugs

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

  Humorous, Self, Hopeful

• 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

  Intelligent, Drug, Use

  "Chaos & cyber culture". Book by Timothy Leary, 1994.

• 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

  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

• 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.

  Timothy Leary

  Discovery, Alcohol, Drug

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

  Timothy Leary

  Stupid, People, Drug

• The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

  Timothy Leary

  Butterfly, Drug, Caterpillars

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Taken, People

• Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

  Timothy Leary

  Keys, Drug, Mind

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

• Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

  Timothy Leary

  Taken, Loss, Reality

• Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

  Timothy Leary

  Dope, People, Drug

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

• LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

  Timothy Leary

  Psychosis, People, Drug

• 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

  Religious, Eye, Drug

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

• 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

  Eight, Drug, Brain

• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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

  Timothy Leary

  Drug, Brain, Psychedelic

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