Timothy Leary Brain Quotations

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

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