Timothy Leary Quotes


"You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
- Timothy Leary
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Men, Women, Ambition)

"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: History)

"Turn on, Tune in, Drop out."
- Timothy Leary
"Think for yourself and question authority."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Authority, Question)

"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Forget, Memory)

"The universe is an intelligence test."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Intelligence, Universe)

"Science is all metaphor."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Science, Metaphor)

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Time, Mind)

"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Time, Soul, Learning)

"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
(Related: Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk, Today)

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: 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."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Life, People, Advice, Energy, Sense, Today)

"I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Republican, Want)