Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.

Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Timothy Leary

Think for yourself and question authority.

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

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

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

Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary

When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all.

Timothy Leary

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

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

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Timothy Leary

Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.

Timothy Leary

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.

Timothy Leary

I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.

Timothy Leary

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

Timothy Leary

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

Timothy Leary