Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Terence McKenna

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Become

• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • inspirational

• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Ignore

• Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Issues
  • Clear

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• A glimpse heavenward at a constellation or even at a single star only suggests infinity; actually our vision is limited. We cannot perceive unlimited space; it is immeasurable. The universe, as we know it through our visual experience, is limited. It first came into existence with the formation of matter, and will end with the complete dissolution of matter.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Experience
  • Single
  • Space

• First Theory.-There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus...

  

  Maimonides
  • Universe

• They're making a joke of our universe

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Universe

• I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Devil

• A very plausible choice for when inflation might have happened would be when the energy scales of the universe were at the scale of grand unified theories... which unify the weak, strong and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified interaction. ..we're talking about energies which are about 10

  

  Alan Guth
  • Strong
  • Energy
  • Single

• You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • People
  • Universe
  • Moral

• The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

  

  Arnold Mindell
  • Issues
  • Solving
  • Interwoven

• There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Universe
  • Person
  • Destiny

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Influence
  • Changes
  • Harmony

• I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Issues
  • Weirdness