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.

Terence McKenna

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• A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Find
  • Lot

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • See
  • Plays
  • Musicals

• 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.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Power
  • Revenge

• Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Real
  • Proud

• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

  

  Livy
  • Guilty

• I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

  

  Christoffel Wiese
  • People
  • Today
  • Amazing

• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Personality
  • Management

• I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Personality

• I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Time

• I've always been worried about being late for things, so I'm 30 - 40 minutes early for everything. That's a habit I'll keep going.

  

  Kim Matula
  • Habit

• Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Rest

• The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • America
  • Singing
  • Hear

• 'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

  

  Jim Hightower
  • People
  • Good
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Singing
  • Humans