Timothy Leary

"And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit."

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

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

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

"The universe is an intelligence test."

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

"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."

"Science is all metaphor."

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself."

"LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it."

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

"I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen."