Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKenna
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
P. J. O'Rourke
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
Yoko Ono
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick
You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.
Dean Jones
I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
Joe Gibbs
Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
Wallace Stevens
I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.
Barry Barish
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
Marge Piercy
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKenna