Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Terence McKenna

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• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
  • Step

• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Children
  • Community
  • Sacrifice

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

  

  Flume
  • America
  • Kind
  • Australia

• Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• 'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Leave
  • Troubles
  • Bore

• Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

  

  Umberto Eco

• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Women
  • Law

• I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Work

• Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Father

• Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Life
  • Two
  • Life is

• Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Women
  • Want

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Mother

• Of a number of variant hypotheses about the same facts, that one is true which shows why facts, which in the other hypotheses remain unrelated, are as they are, i.e., which demonstrates their orderly and rational mathematical connexion.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Why
  • True

• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wish