Timothy Leary Quotes - Page 6

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

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

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Science is all metaphor.

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 program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

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

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.

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

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

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