Timothy Leary híres idézetei
Timothy Leary: Idézetek angolul
Grace Slick, and Leary are both quoted in the Infected Mushroom song "Drop out" on the EP Deeply Disturbed (2003), but only the final portion actually quotes Leary.
Misattributed
Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]
How to Operate Your Brain (1994) http://yoism.org/?q=node/47, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music.
The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.
The Intelligence Agents (1996)
As quoted in Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia : How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings (2005), by Rob Brezsny, p. 8
“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.”
Discussing CNN’s Crossfire as quoted in Rolling Stone (14 December 1989)
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
"The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
At the Neo-Pagan Starwood Festival (July 1991), recorded on Timothy Leary Live at Starwood (2001) http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 by the Association for Consciousness Exploration ISBN 1-59157-002-6
In a Stanley Siegel interview (c. 1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrdNRvJ7-8, with phone commentary by Art Linkletter who blamed his daughter's death on her involvement with LSD.
As quoted in The Best Advice Ever for Teachers (2001) by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, p. 57
Drop Out, Turn On. Tune In.
Start your own Religion (1967)
“Drugs Are the Religion of the People — The Only Hope is Dope”
Section title in "The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
As quoted in Still Casting Shadows : A Shared Mosaic of U.S. History (2006) by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376
On being brought back to life, during the period in which he considered putting his body into cryonic suspension, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 130
"Neurological Politics"'
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
On the Castalia Institute in Millbrook, New York; quoted in Storming Heaven : LSD and the American Dream (1998) by Jay Stevens, p. 208
The Psychedelic Experience (1964), p. 12
“The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.”
Though at times attributed to Leary on the internet, no published source of this has been located. It is a misquote of a William S. Burroughs reading entitled M.O.B. from the Giorno Poetry Systems boxed set. M.O.B. was an extension of Burroughs' expression in The Place of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155:
You are a Shit Spotter. It's satisfying work. … We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus … The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.
Misattributed