Timothy Leary: Quotes about people

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

A Trip with Paul Kassner 
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Context: My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

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

Timothy Leary

Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)

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

Timothy Leary

Attributed to Leary by Terence McKenna in one of his talks ( "The World and Its Double" https://terencemckenna.wikispaces.com/The+World+And+Its+Double, 11 September 1993, Nature Friends Lodge, Sierra Madre, CA), though he also stated[citation needed] Leary denied ever having said it. <br class="br">Misattributed

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

Timothy Leary

Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010), p. 202

“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 four years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the sunday school teachings.”

Timothy Leary

LSD: Methods of Control (1966)

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

Timothy Leary

Section title in "The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

Timothy Leary

"Neurological Politics"'
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)