Timothy Leary Quotes

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur'an agree, although in the Qur'an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.