Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

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• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Mean

• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Mean
  • See

• I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Free
  • Mean
  • Presses

• We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Future
  • Education

• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Deep

• Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

  

  Dakis Joannou
  • People
  • Power
  • Mean

• Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

  

  Paige Omartian
  • God
  • Remember
  • Today

• Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Men
  • Heart

• The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • God
  • Power
  • Strong

• I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Future

• I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

  

  Emile Zola
  • True
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Truth
  • Mean
  • Voice

• I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Lying

• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Night
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  • Moments

• At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Goal
  • Profit
  • Patagonia

• I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Long
  • Air
  • Write

• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  

  Kabir
  • Music
  • Long
  • Mind

• I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mean
  • Fascinated
  • Hallucinations