Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Self-Discovery
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Education, Generations
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Ambition, Feminism, Women
Science is all metaphor.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Science, Scientists
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Society
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
—Timothy Leary
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, MOVE.
—Timothy Leary
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
—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
Topics: Twentieth Century
The universe is an intelligence test.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Intelligence
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
Topics: Philosophy, Philosophers
Think for yourself, question authority.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: Protest
Think for yourself and question authority.
—Timothy Leary
Topics: One liners, Authority
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- Martin Seligman American Psychologist
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- B. F. Skinner American Psychologist
- Abraham Maslow American Psychologist
- Carl Rogers American Psychologist
- Orval Hobart Mowrer American Psychologist
- Howard Gardner American Psychologist
- George W. Crane American Psychologist
- Bruno Bettelheim Austrian-born Psychoanalyst
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