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.

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

the new brain-change drug of the times.

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in what is called...

Think for yourself and question authority

“Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum)...

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

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...

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities,...

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.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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

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

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

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

The universe is an intelligence test

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Science is all metaphor.

In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.

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.

I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

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 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...

Think for yourself and question authority.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.