Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

Terence McKenna

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• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
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• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

  Beau Garrett
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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
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• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Communication
  • Genius

• Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Mind
  • Education
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• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• ...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Joy

• Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

  

  Daphne du Maurier
  • Mind
  • Quality

• I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Mind

• What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Mind

• It's very important not just to think you need to eat and drink and sleep. You need to feed your heart and your mind and your soul as well.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Lit

• I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  

  Saadi
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • War

• I'm really more of an executive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • More
  • Really
  • Executive

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Class
  • Ireland
  • Castes

• The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Animal
  • Mystery