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“Well, yes, I’m in prison, and that may seem odd: a philosopher in prison. But I’d like to say this about my profession. The best philosophers often end up in prison. If you’re a good baseball player, you end up in the Major Leagues. If you’re a really successful politician, you end up in Washington, I’m sorry to say. If you’re really a good philosopher – if you’re coming out with new ideas about the seven great destiny questions that are going to rattle the walls of the social institutions, like most of the men I have modeled myself after – they’ll have been lucky if they got away just being in prison, with their ideas.”
- Timothy Leary, Folsom Prison, 1973
(2m17s, ‘From Folsom Prison’ Video)