207 Quotes by Timothy Leary

The goals of an intelligent life, according to Socrates, is to pursue the philosophic quest – to increase one’s knowledge of self and world.

People ask me how many times I’ve taken LSD – and I don’t count. But it’s the same thing when they ask me how many times I’ve made love. The answer is, not enough.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

One cannot evolve from one’s robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

A country run by law is a country ruined by lawyers. It is neurologically impossible for a lawyer or a military man to think creatively or to act in harmony with nature.

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

The word “religion” beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates “to bind” from the Latin – “re” means back and “ligare” means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

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.

I predicted that if control of drugs were administered by law enforcement agencies, the result would be a black market more irrational and widespread than that of alcohol prohibition and the growth of enormous police-state repressive bureaucracy. And who, indeed, wanted that?