Timothy Leary Quotes - Page 5

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• They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

  Timothy Leary

  Marijuana, Numbers, Vegetables

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• Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

  Timothy Leary

  Ritual, Internals, Experiments

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• Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.

  Timothy Leary

  Wise, Religious, Expression

  "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.

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• 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.

  Timothy Leary

  Where We Come, Enormous, Shows

  "H. R. Giger, Artist Who Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, Dies at 74" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2014.

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• The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

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  Revolution, Psychedelic, Nervous

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• Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

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  Intelligent, Evolution, Higher

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.42, Ronin Publishing

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Marijuana

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• I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

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  Followers, Kind, Follow Me

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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

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  Funny, Taken, People

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• Give death a better name or die trying.

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  Names, Giving, Trying

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• When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

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  Men, Suits Of Armor, Bully

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.127, Ronin Publishing

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• There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

  Timothy Leary

  Names, Skins, Technique

  "Leary calls LSD 'sacrament'". The Tech, p. 6, November 08, 1966.

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

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  Civilization, Society, Unbearable

  "Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.s. History". Book by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Christian, Order, Civilization

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.90, Ronin Publishing

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• Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

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  Religious, Games, Fake

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.334, Ronin Publishing

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• If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

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  Moving, Want, Hives

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

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• 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.

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  Combination, Teach, Symbols

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.72, Ronin Publishing

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• Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

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  Mistake, Years, Two

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• 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.

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  Emotional, Years, Fiction

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• Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

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  School, Public School

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

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

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• Science is all metaphor.

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  Science, Metaphor, Scientist

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• 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 a room up in the hotel in the sky.

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  Christian, Sky, Giving

  "Timothy Leary's Last Trip". Documentary, 1997.

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• The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

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  Lsd

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

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  Drug, Brain, Psychedelic

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