Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

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• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Well
  • Open
  • Desperation

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Support
  • Doing
  • Something

• My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Anger

• I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Never

• I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Kids
  • American

• Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • God

• I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Evil

• Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • History
  • Hand

• We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Stop

• I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest-that one can analyze the world...

  

  John D. Barrow
  • World
  • Why
  • Rest

• Yoga, unlike dance or mime,

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Expression

• Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Long

• As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • She
  • Book

• Harold, according to some historians, crowned himself with his own hand, without any religious ceremony; and renewing in his heart the ancient spirit of his ancestors, he conceived a hatred for Christianity.

  

  Augustin Thierry
  • Christianity
  • Hatred
  • Ceremony

• The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
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