Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

Terence McKenna

• Despair
• Driven
• Psychedelic
• Inevitable
• Idealism

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• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
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• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
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• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
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• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
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• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Night
  • Always
  • Woman

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• Teach hope to all, despair to none.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Teach
  • Despair

• Despair often breeds disease.

  

  Sophocles
  • Disease
  • Despair
  • Breeds

• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Evil
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• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
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  • Appeals

• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Break
  • Hearts

• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Together
  • Proud

• We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Earth
  • Dog
  • Everyday

• I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Up
  • House

• It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Why
  • Peace
  • Language

• Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

  

  William Congreve
  • Should
  • Hands
  • Admire

• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Despair
  • Driven
  • Psychedelic