John C Lilly Quotes

#1. All laws are simulations of reality.

John C. Lilly

#2. All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

John C. Lilly

#3. Our only security is our ability to change.

John Lilly

#4. For when it starts feeling like a prison in there - and it usually does for most people - you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

John C. Lilly

#5. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

#6. In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.

John C. Lilly

#7. I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.

John C. Lilly

#8. It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

John Irving

#9. I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.'
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since.

Donald Ray Pollock

#10. Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.

Jon Paul Fiorentino

#11. Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Patrick Ness

#12. Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After

William Kent Krueger

#13. As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, "Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here."

John C. Lilly

#14. Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.

Bette Lee Crosby

#15. Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)

Johan Cruijff

#16. Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough.

John Irving

#17. There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Nathanael Emmons

#18. Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

Umar

#19. There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

Danny McBride

#20. Beliefs are limits to be transcended.

John Lilly

#21. I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.

Kangana Ranaut

#22. The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

John C. Lilly

#23. I have explored and have voluntarily entered into domains forbidden by a large fraction of those in our culture who are not curious, are not explorative and are not mentally equipped to enter these domains.

John C. Lilly

#24. Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.

John C. Lilly

#25. I do not believe in luck, I believe in effort.

Anonymous

#26. In the province of the mind, there are no limits.

John C. Lilly

#27. If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

John Lilly

#29. The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

John C. Lilly

#30. I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don't answer the telephone, we don't have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

John C. Lilly

#31. You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

John C. Lilly

#32. Strether wondered, desiring justice. "They seem - all the women - very harmonious." "Oh in closer quarters they come out!" And then, while Strether was aware of fearing closer quarters, though giving himself again to the harmonies,

Henry James

#33. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#34. Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Orson Scott Card

#35. As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie
bullshit, in other words
because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation
a misrepresentation.

John C. Lilly