Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

Terence McKenna

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• Desert
• Calling
• Ideology
• Psychedelic
• Wander
• Compass

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• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • House
  • First
  • Club

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Human
  • Fight
  • Exploitation

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.

  

  Warren Farrell

• He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Religious

• That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Cold

• I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

  

  Mark Valley

• The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

  

  James Hillman
  • May
  • Soul
  • Parents

• I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Law

• If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Work
  • Real
  • Relationship

• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  

  Kanye West
  • Crazy
  • Would Be
  • Bars

• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • Earth

• The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Law
  • Honest

• From heart to heart a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven. Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven than to pass through each others' eyes.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Desert
  • Calling