Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

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.

The universe is an intelligence test.

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

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.

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.

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.

Think for yourself and question authority.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.