If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
– Timothy Leary
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
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
– Timothy Leary
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
Science is all metaphor.
– Timothy Leary
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
– Timothy Leary
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
– Timothy Leary
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
– Timothy Leary
The universe is an intelligence test.
– Timothy Leary
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.