Quotes from Timothy Leary

When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

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

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

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

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

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.

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

Think for yourself and question authority.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

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.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

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!