“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.”
— Timothy Leary
Life
“The universe is an intelligence test.”
— Timothy Leary
Intelligence
“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.”
— Timothy Leary
Age
“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”
— Timothy Leary
Learning
“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
— Timothy Leary
Society
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
— Timothy Leary
History
“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
— Timothy Leary
Change
“Science is all metaphor.”
— Timothy Leary
Science
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
— Timothy Leary
Men