Quotes by Timothy Leary

“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.”

“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.”

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individuals function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when youre in a field sharing and exchanging inf...”

“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in w...”

“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-...”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

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

“Science is all metaphor.”

“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 universe is an intelligence test.”

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”

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

“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”

“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. Ea...”

“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 p...”

“We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experie...”

“People use the word natural … What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is four years at Harvard, and the Bible, a...”

“Art's certainly made a lot of money, and got on a lot of shows — he got himself into the Nixon White House riding on the death of his daughter. And I think that's ghoulish! That's ghoulish.”

“To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish. Every time we teach a child correct usag...”