Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna
Quotes to Explore
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When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
Ulrich Beck
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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I am a black woman, and of course, that's who I'm going to be playing, but I'm also biracial, and that's a different side of the experience.
Laura Harrier
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Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
Rachael Ray
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Tariq Ramadan
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Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.
Agatha Christie
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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
Bill Moyers
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If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.
Jerry Hall
