Timothy Leary Quotes

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Socrates was executed … not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

When we reason upon general subjects, one may justly affirm, that our speculations can scarce ever be too fine, provided they be just.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep my mouth shut when I see injustice.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff.