Quotes from Timothy Leary

Just as every Hollywood picture is "put together" by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion's share of the profits, so is the Outlaw Industry managed by lawyers.

Criminals/sinners-from the Black Panthers to FBI chiefs and White House Officials-appear on the scene, make their play, and get dragged off stage, but the lawyers remain, administrating and profiting from the action and booking the next show.

The underlying solution - repeated again and again - is to recognize that your brain is producing the visions. They do not exist. Nothing exists except as your consciousness gives it life.

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.

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

Ä°nsan olmak, pek çok psikoloÄŸa göre dürüst bir biçimde mant?ks?z olmakt?r.

ÖÄŸretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya haz?r olan "düÅŸünen" s?n?f?n genç üyeleri ile s?k s?k sorun yaÅŸarlar. Bu s?n?f?n yaln?zca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalmas? yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya haz?rd?rlar böylece onlar? geliÅŸtirebilirler.

Gerçekten kimse müritleri sevmez. Müritler zaten kendilerini sevmez; bu yüzden sürünürler. Ve liderler, kendilerine boyun eÄŸenleri küçümsemekten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey yapmazlar. Ä°ÅŸte bu yüzden üzerlerine böyle renkli utançlar yüklerler.

At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" "But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)

the free consciousness has only to hear and remember the teachings in order to be liberated. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is ostensibly a book describing the experiences to be expected at the moment of death, during an intermediate phase lasting forty-nine (seven times seven) days, and during rebirth into another bodily frame.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

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

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

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.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

The universe is an intelligence test.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

Grow with the flow

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

Just Say Know

Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.