Frases de Timothy Leary
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Timothy Francis Leary, Ph.D. fue un escritor, psicólogo y entusiasta de la investigación y uso de drogas psicodélicas. También fue una de las primeras personas cuyos restos fueron enviados al espacio por petición propia. Fue un famoso proponente de los beneficios terapéuticos y espirituales del uso del LSD.

✵ 22. octubre 1920 – 31. mayo 1996
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Frases célebres de Timothy Leary

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Timothy Leary: Frases en inglés

“Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.”

Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]

“That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.”

Discussing CNN’s Crossfire as quoted in Rolling Stone (14 December 1989)

“I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.”

At the Neo-Pagan Starwood Festival (July 1991), recorded on Timothy Leary Live at Starwood (2001) http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 by the Association for Consciousness Exploration ISBN 1-59157-002-6

“Art's certainly made a lot of money, and got on a lot of shows — he got himself into the Nixon White House riding on the death of his daughter. And I think that's ghoulish! That's ghoulish.”

In a Stanley Siegel interview (c. 1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrdNRvJ7-8, with phone commentary by Art Linkletter who blamed his daughter's death on her involvement with LSD.

“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.”

As quoted in The Best Advice Ever for Teachers (2001) by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, p. 57

“Drugs Are the Religion of the People — The Only Hope is Dope”

Section title in "The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

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

As quoted in Still Casting Shadows : A Shared Mosaic of U.S. History (2006) by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376

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

On being brought back to life, during the period in which he considered putting his body into cryonic suspension, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 130

“The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.”

Though at times attributed to Leary on the internet, no published source of this has been located. It is a misquote of a William S. Burroughs reading entitled M.O.B. from the Giorno Poetry Systems boxed set. M.O.B. was an extension of Burroughs' expression in The Place of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155:
You are a Shit Spotter. It's satisfying work. … We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus … The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.
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