Timothy Leary Short Quotes

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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

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Drugs Are the Religion of the People — The Only Hope is Dope

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Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

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

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

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That's the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.

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Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

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If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

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

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

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

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If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

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All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

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

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The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

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The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people.... The only control is self-control.

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

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

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

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One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

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

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We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

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What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

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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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Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.

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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.

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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.

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