Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

Terence McKenna

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• Drug
• Motivated
• Assuming
• Psychedelic
• Courageous
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• Archetype
• Wholeness

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

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  • Money
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• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
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• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

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• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
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• I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
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• Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Ideas

• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

  Jack Valenti
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• All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

  

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• In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

  

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• Blue Moon,You saw me standing alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

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• Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

  

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  • Technology

• As I started eating more natural foods and thinking about what I was putting into my body, I became more interested in what I was putting on it, too.

  

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• Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

  

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• The Russian Federation have the same aim as the rest of the international community, ... Foreign Minister Lavrov is on record as saying that the Russian Federation does not wish the government of Iran to develop or acquire a nuclear weapons capability. That is the same approach as we have. What we're now working out is the appropriate tactics to achieve that.

  

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  • Wish
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• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

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  • Want
  • Sexy

• I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

  

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Drug
  • Motivated