Timothy Leary Quotes
-
Think for yourself and question authority.
→ -
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
→ -
Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you.
→ -
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
→ -
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
→ -
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
→ -
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
→ -
The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
→ -
I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
→ -
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos
→ -
Tune in, turn on, and drop out.
→ -
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.
→ -
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
→ -
Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
→ -
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
→ -
Grow within the flow.
→ -
The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.
→ -
Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.
→ -
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
→ -
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
→ -
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.
→ -
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
→ -
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"
→ -
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
→ -
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
→ -
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.
→ -
I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.
→ -
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.
→ -
If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.
→ -
Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.
→
Related Authors
-
Allen Ginsberg Poet -
Ram Dass Teacher -
Alexander Shulgin Chemist -
Ralph Metzner Psychologist -
Albert Hofmann Scientist -
John Lennon Musician -
Terence McKenna Philosopher -
Jack Kerouac Novelist -
Robert Anton Wilson Author -
Abbie Hoffman Social activist -
John C. Lilly Writer -
Ken Kesey Author -
Carlos Castaneda Author -
Jason Silva Television Personality -
Alan Watts Philosopher -
William S. Burroughs Novelist -
Stanislav Grof Psychiatrist -
Aldous Huxley Writer