Quotes from Timothy Leary

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

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

In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

Science is all metaphor.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

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.

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

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

Man's best friend is his dogma.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

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.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.