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Timothy Leary Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of chaos.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Crime
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
— Timothy Leary, Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
Tagged: Language, God, Theology, Religion, Science, God Speaks, How We Hear The Secret of Life
“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”
— Timothy Leary, Your Brain Is God
Tagged: Love
“A country run by law is a country ruined by lawyers. It is neurologically impossible for a lawyer or a military man to think creatively or to act in harmony with nature.”
— Timothy Leary
“The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search—for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.”
— Timothy Leary, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Tagged: Wisdom, Religion
“I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Paganism
“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.”
— Timothy Leary, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Tagged: Philosophy, Feudalism, Aristotle, Information Age
“The old cliche must be updated: crime does not pay for the three victims of every crime-the victim, the taxpayer and the crook. Crime does pay, however, and handsomely, for the attorneys who produce the National Crime-Sin Show.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Crime, Prison Industrial Complex
“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Consciousness, Reciprocity
“Do not trust anyone who comes on emotional.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: emotions, Trust
“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”
— Timothy Leary, And I Quote, Revised Edition
Tagged: Soul, Patience, Learning
“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 the realities you inhabit.”
— Timothy Leary, INSPIRED REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE
Tagged: Quantum Physics, Philosophy
“One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an 'upper' class, a 'high' society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, John Wayne, Class
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Education
“Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.”
— Timothy Leary
Tagged: Brain, Intelligence
“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—the political, the religious, the educational authorities—who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing—forming in our minds—their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.”
— Timothy Leary, Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
Tagged: Authority, Conscious
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