Timothy Leary
Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.Collection: Relationship
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.Collection: Women
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Age
I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.Collection: Medical
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.Collection: Society
The universe is an intelligence test.Collection: Intelligence
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.Collection: Change
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.Collection: Intelligence
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
Think for yourself and question authority.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.
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our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.
From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.
In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all.
At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.
Science is all metaphor.
Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillarsCollection: Butterfly
People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.Collection: People
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.Collection: Pieces
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Independent
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.Collection: Air
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Religious
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.Collection: Three
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.Collection: Brain
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 chaosCollection: Sports
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.Collection: Responsibility
There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.Collection: Stupid
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.Collection: Mind
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.Collection: Inspiring
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.Collection: Doubt
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.Collection: Artist
Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.Collection: Prayer
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.Collection: Moving
One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Girl
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.Collection: Humorous
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.Collection: Drug
Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.Collection: Dope
Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?Collection: Spiritual