Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
-
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
Focus on remedies, not faults.
-
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
-
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
-
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
-
Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
-
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
-
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
-
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
-
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
-
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
-
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
-
Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
-
I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
-
I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
-
Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
-
I'm addicted to prescription glasses.
-
Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
-
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
