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, 1966
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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCWhere happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971