Timothy Leary quotes

" Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. " # Feminism # Ambition # Women

" There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. " # Memory # Age and Aging # Thoughts and Thinking

" Think for yourself and question authority. " # Questions

" You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. " # Change # Politicians and Politics # Goals

" If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. " # Change # Attitude # Mind

" We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. " # Education # Dress # Mind

" Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. " # Civilization

" My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. " # Twentieth Century # Advice # Life and Living

" In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Age and Aging # Friends and Friendship

" "Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity." " # Love # Politicians and Politics # Change