Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Terence McKenna

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Witty

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Visualize

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Imagination
  • Fly

• I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Energy
  • Present

• My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Why
  • Small
  • Imagination

• It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

  

  David Korten
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.

  

  Om Malik
  • Technology
  • Worry

• You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Activity
  • Enzymes