Quotes from Timothy Leary

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

Why not? Yeah

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

Courage is the key to creativity and to any relinquishing of ego structure.

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.

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.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.

Give death a better name or die trying.

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

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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.