207 Quotes by Timothy Leary

There are no bad drugs. There’s simply stupid people who don’t know how to use them.

They’ve outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

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

LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste.“To use your head you have to go out of your mind” “You are a God, act like one”

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message – to escape and come home.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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...

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key – it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

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