Timothy Leary Quotes

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustement - mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized - make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill.

You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.

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

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.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

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

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

Think for yourself and question authority.

What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.