Timothy Leary Quotes

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

With our thoughts we make the world.

A thought will color a world for us.

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

As you are, so is the world.