Quotable: Timothy Leary
- 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.
- If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
- There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
- Think for yourself and question authority.
- 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.
- Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
- The universe is an intelligence test.
- You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
- Science is all metaphor.
- People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the sunday school teachings.
- If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
- "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity."
- We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
- The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.
I always thought he said "Tune in, turn on and drop out". It sounds better, anyway.
ReplyDeleteTimothy was wiser than most of the uptight folks in this country thought. Of course, those with an open mind got him.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
ReplyDeleteThis is gonna be my new motto of the moment. Tim Leary speaks the truth!
Timothy Leary's dead.
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
Along the coast you'll hear them boast
About a light they say that shines so clear.
So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast
To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.
He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
What a life.
I agree with almost every word he said - wow, I didn't take drugs to get this way!
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