Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

Terence McKenna

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Experiences

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Career
  • You
  • Analyzing

• My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Size
  • Contribution
  • Finance

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Always
  • Find
  • Complicated

• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • God
  • Truth

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Good
  • Impression
  • Elements

• There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Future
  • President
  • Decisions

• You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Human
  • See
  • Glass

• In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Name
  • Noble

• I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• You would not believe my suffering... Death would be sweeter... I can't go another day without seeing you. Atrocious madness, it's the end. I won't be able to work any more. Malevolent goddess! And yet I love you furiously.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Death

• If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Good

• You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Realize

• Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Needed

• Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Cry

• The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Broken
  • Credit