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Turn on, tune in, drop out

Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.

Psychologist and Writer | American

Born: 1920-10-22 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Died: May 31, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, USA

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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age

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

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.

Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary
men

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

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