Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

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• I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Life
  • World
  • Friends

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a 'Pootie' sketch, when she was melted over him like butter on an English muffin.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Good
  • Done
  • She

• To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Want

• Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Road

• You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Immortal
  • Dostoevsky
  • Citizeness

• I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Dirty
  • Janitor

• No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • War
  • Body Bags

• We didn't grow up rich people.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Grow Up
  • Rich People

• If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Truth
  • Change

• Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

  

  John Calvin
  • Free
  • Philosophy
  • Christian Mind

• We knew we would make it and become very big.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Make
  • Big

• In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Refuge
  • Insomnia
  • Oasis

• You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Love
  • Die

• We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

  

  Terence McKenna
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