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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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanWe possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbKill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BC