207 Quotes by Timothy Leary

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.

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.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

Gerçekten kimse müritleri sevmez. Müritler zaten kendilerini sevmez; bu yüzden sürünürler. Ve liderler, kendilerine boyun eğenleri küçümsemekten başka bir şey yapmazlar. İşte bu yüzden üzerlerine böyle renkli utançlar yüklerler.

Öğretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya hazır olan "düşünen" sınıfın genç üyeleri ile sık sık sorun yaşarlar. Bu sınıfın yalnızca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalması yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya hazırdırlar böylece onları geliştirebilirler.

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.

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?)

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.

This is the oldest form of living communication; the brotherhood of breath.