207 Quotes by Timothy Leary

We were thinking far-out history thoughts at Harvard... believing that it was a time for visions, knowing that America had run out of philosophy, that a new empirical, tangible meta-physics was needed.

After you turn on, don’t spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

The PC is the LSD of the ’90s.

Just as every Hollywood picture is “put together” by producers, who are always in tight control of the enterprise and reap the lion’s share of the profits, so is the Outlaw Industry managed by lawyers.

One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an “upper” class, a “high” society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.

I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

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.

Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.