Timothy Leary Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Dna, Plant Life, Space

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.14, Ronin Publishing

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

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  Marijuana, Numbers, Vegetables

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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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• 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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• 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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• Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

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  Followers, Embarrassment, Masters

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

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• Give death a better name or die trying.

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  Names, Giving, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Names, Skins, Technique

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

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. 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.

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  Philosophy, Moving, Games

  Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21

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

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  School, Public School

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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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• 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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• 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”

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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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• Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

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  Tunes, Turns, Turn-on

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

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  Boredom, Routine, Life Is

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