Timothy Leary Quotes

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• You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

  Timothy Leary

  Butterfly, Use, Language

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  Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Pieces, Unexpected, Psychedelic

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• 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.

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  Independent, Thinking, Information Is Power

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• People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Mind, Senses

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• You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.

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  Powerful, Creativity, Humanity

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• 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.

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  Air, Games, Perspective

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

  Timothy Leary

  Change, Positive Thinking, Mind

  "Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People" by Darrin Zeer, (p. 52), 2000.

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• 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.

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  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

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  Three, Language, My Favorite

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• Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

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  Life, Beautiful, Responsibility

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.102, Ronin Publishing

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  Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

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  Brain, Today, Produce

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.80, Ronin Publishing

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• 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 chaos

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  Sports, Philosophy, Team

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

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  Stupid, People, Drug

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• Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

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  Tunes, Cannabis, Turns

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.128, Ronin Publishing

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

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  Mind, Use, Psychedelic

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• If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

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  Inspiring, People, Want

  "Changing My Mind, Among Others". Book by Timothy Leary, 1982.

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• Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

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  Doubt, Mind, Relax

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

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• To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

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  Artist, Experience, Scientist

  "Changing My Mind, Among Others : Lifetime Writings" by Timothy Leary, (p. 76), 1982.

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• One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

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  Creativity, Realizing, Evolve

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• 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.

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  Girl, Past, Men

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• When you get the message, hang up the phone.

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  Phones, Messages, Psychedelic

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• Think for yourself and question authority.

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  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.

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