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.

  

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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
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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
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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
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• 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
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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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• 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

• . . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Passion
  • Pretending

• I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Home
  • Mother

• The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  

  Brad Gooch
  • Work
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• I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Values
  • Models
  • Agendas

• 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