Timothy Leary Quotes

• Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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• You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

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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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• Think for yourself and question authority.

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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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• The universe is an intelligence test.

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• Science is all metaphor.

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• 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.

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• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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• 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.

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• If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

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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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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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• Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

  Timothy Leary

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Timothy Leary (14)

Birth:	22nd October, 1920
Death:	31st May, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Psychologist, Writer

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