Wisdom on Friday, or How The Dog Ate My Homework

Remember Timothy Leary? The counterculture heavyweight whom Nixon dubbed "the most dangerous man in America"? The weirdo that had his remains launched into orbit in 1997 via a Spanish satellite? Yeah, that dude.



A few choice quotes:

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. (If you were born after 1980 you might mistakenly apply this quote to drug abuse, but ol' Tim was referring to *gasp* albums played on a turntable.)

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.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.


*This is his famous one:
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.

Science is all metaphor.

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

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

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