Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary - Timothy Leary

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

What I feel or believe or experience is my business, and what I do is all our businesses; and reward or punish me according to whether I play the game well — ethically and rightly — or unethically.

The goals of an intelligent life, according to Socrates, is to pursue the philosophic quest — to increase one’s knowledge of self and world.