Timothy Leary Quotes

It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.

That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.

I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.

I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

The universe is a thought of God.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.