Top 120 Timothy Leary Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Think for yourself and question authority.”

— Timothy Leary

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2. “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”

— Timothy Leary

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3. “To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.”

— Timothy Leary

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4. “Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...”

— Timothy Leary

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5. “Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.”

— Timothy Leary

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6. “Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

— Timothy Leary

7. “If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”

— Timothy Leary

8. “And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

10. “When you get the message, hang up the phone.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

12. “Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

— Timothy Leary

13. “Grow within the flow.”

— Timothy Leary

14. “You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity’s evolution.”

— Timothy Leary

15. “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

— Timothy Leary

16. “The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.”

— Timothy Leary

17. “You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

19. “You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars.”

— Timothy Leary

20. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

— Timothy Leary

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21. “You are a God Act like one!”

— Timothy Leary

22. “The PC is the LSD of the ’90s.”

— Timothy Leary

23. “I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.”

— Timothy Leary

24. “LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.”

— Timothy Leary

25. “To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.”

— Timothy Leary

26. “The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don’t take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

28. “Give death a better name or die trying.”

— Timothy Leary

29. “Tune in, turn on, and drop out.”

— Timothy Leary

30. “The universe is an intelligence test.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

33. “Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.”

— Timothy Leary

34. “The most important thing you do in your life is to die.”

— Timothy Leary

35. “Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

38. “I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”

— Timothy Leary

39. “That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.”

— Timothy Leary

40. “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.”

— Timothy Leary

41. “If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you’d never fall in love.”

— Timothy Leary

42. “I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.”

— Timothy Leary

43. “At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.”

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

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

— Timothy Leary

46. “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””

— Timothy Leary

47. “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.”

— Timothy Leary

48. “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.”

— Timothy Leary

49. “Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.”

— Timothy Leary

50. “Man’s best friend is his dogma.”

— Timothy Leary