John asked what he could do to help my campaign for governor. "Write a campaign song," I replied. "Okay," said John, "what's the theme?" "Our campaig… - Timothy Leary

Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.

If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.

The goals of an intelligent life, according to Socrates, is to pursue the philosophic quest — to increase one’s knowledge of self and world.