--- title: "1 Internally Quotes By Timothy Leary" description: "1 Internally quotes by Timothy Leary. Plus more from Timothy Leary and more Internally sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/timothy-leary-2431_altered_there-s-one-uneasy-borderline-between-wh_2158881.png" --- > [There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/there-s-one-uneasy-borderline-between-what-is-external-and-what-is/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/timothy-leary-2431_altered_there-s-one-uneasy-borderline-between-wh_2158881.png) ## More by Timothy Leary > [You are a God Act like one!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/you-are-a-god-act-like-one/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/throughout-human-history-as-our-species-has-faced-the-frightening/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/psychedelic-drugs-cause-paranoia-confusion-and-total-loss-of-reality/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Tune in, turn on, and drop out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/tune-in-turn-on-and-drop-out/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [The most important thing you do in your life is to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/the-most-important-thing-you-do-in-your-life-is-to-die/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/the-aim-of-human-life-is-to-know-thyself-think-for-yourself-question/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/learning-how-to-operate-a-soul-figures-to-take-time/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/at-the-peak-of-his-scientific-triumphs-newton-became-a-head-a-student/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/when-you-teach-someone-how-to-perform-creatively-ie-associate-dead/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/in-the-eleusinian-mysteries-they-would-always-warn-people-if-you-go/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/at-every-level-there-are-eight-stages-of-intelligence-you-have-to/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/intelligence-is-the-ultimate-aphrodisiac/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/you-cannot-use-butterfly-language-to-communicate-with-caterpillars/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/of-course-the-drug-does-not-produce-the-transcendent-experience-it/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) > [Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/seven-million-people-i-turned-on-and-only-one-hundred-thousand-have/) [Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internally/timothy-leary/#itemlist", "name": "1 Internally Quotes By Timothy Leary", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. 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