40 quotes
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000)
Think for yourself and question authority.
Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
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.
Shout! (1981)
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
"Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment.
Flashbacks (1983)
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.
Start your own Religion (1967)
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye.
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.
The Psychedelic Experience (1995)
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history.
Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
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.
Chaos and Cyber Culture (1994)
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Still Casting Shadows : A Shared Mosaic of U.S. History (2006)
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.
The Best Advice Ever for Teachers (2001)