Timothy Leary

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"That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA."
- [Discussing CNN’s Crossfire, ca. 1992]
"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."
- [From The Politics of Ecstasy]
"... and that each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say 'you are a sinner', and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky." [From Timothy Leary's Last Trip]
"Think for yourself and question authority." [From Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (Atlantic, 1989)]

"Science is all a metaphor."
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
"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."
"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
"Why not?"
- [According to witnesses, his last words before his death]
"The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business."