Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Learywas an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth22 October 1920
CitySpringfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Timothy Leary quotes about
Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.
People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
The universe is an intelligence test.