Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

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• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • You
  • Plant
  • Walls

• The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Job
  • Quality

• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Love
  • Best
  • Plant

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Plant

• Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • High
  • Tree
  • Sky

• I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

  

  David Cone
  • Father
  • Guy
  • City

• I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Singing
  • Lyrics
  • Plant

• The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Water
  • Plant

• I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

  

  James Marsters
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Animal
  • Plant

• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • Believe
  • True
  • Plant

• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Truth

• Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Path
  • Psychedelic
  • Revelations

• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  

  William James
  • Running
  • Couple
  • Philosophy

• The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

  

  William Blake
  • Truth
  • Self-evident
  • Pretends

• Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Views
  • Misinterpret
  • Evangelicals

• Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Perfect

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Possession
  • Psychedelic