American - Educator | October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996
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
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You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
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There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
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My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.
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I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.
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In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology.
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The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
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I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all.
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From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.
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The universe is an intelligence test.
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