Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

Terence McKenna

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• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Morning

• The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Money
  • Value

• We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Trust

• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Success
  • Style

• I love vegan tacos... soooo good! I invite friends over to have some, and they can't believe they aren't eating real meat.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Believe

• I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Movie
  • Star

• Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.

  

  Frank Thomas
  • Pride

• With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Identity

• I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • America
  • Success
  • Dream

• I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Process
  • Economy
  • Cost

• For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Money
  • Song

• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Film
  • Consciousness