Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

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• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • World
  • Politics
  • Illusion

• There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Music
  • Song
  • Funny

• Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

  

  Lily King
  • Relationship
  • Illusion
  • Disappoint

• My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • World
  • Illusion

• Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Illusion

• God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Truth
  • Illusion
  • Spheres

• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Control
  • Judgment
  • Generosity

• If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Time
  • Today
  • Artist

• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Illusion

• Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Prayer
  • Illusion
  • Concrete

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Illusion
  • Technological

• I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Library

• I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Tree

• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Growing
  • Order
  • Losing

• Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Compare
  • Melancholy

• How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Political
  • Party
  • Poverty

• I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Live
  • Close
  • Sisters

• Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hands
  • Certain
  • Answers

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Illusion
  • Compare
  • Liberation