Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Wir Deutsche fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt - und die Gottesfurcht ist es schon, die uns den Frieden lieben und pflegen lässt.
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My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
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I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.
