Quotes by 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.”

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

“The universe is an intelligence test.”

“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”

“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.”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“Science is all metaphor.”

“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”

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