Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

History is rooted in the future

Terence McKenna

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• We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Smile
  • Jail
  • Criminals

• I think that when you see the trailer [on movie "300"] - my feeling is anyway and maybe I'm not objective because I live it - but I think when you see it you immediately go, 'Okay, this is another sort of way of doing this.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

  

  Constance Marie
  • She
  • Happy
  • Child

• I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Books
  • Loved
  • Notch

• I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Challenge

• Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • American

• Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Groups
  • Block

• I love thee, and it is my love that speaks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Speak
  • For Her

• Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

  

  Sam Andrew Big Brother and the Holding Company
  • Music
  • Art

• Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

  

  William Rees-Mogg
  • Truth
  • Governments
  • Auditors

• Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to build these huge sounds. Sometimes just a sound can trigger words or melodies. I don't have a romantic notion about the past; with Wardruna I wanted to create something new using something old.

  

  Einar Selvik
  • Romantic
  • Instruments
  • Sounds

• My older son asked me yesterday.."Father, can you teach me how to play drums"...What a feeling. :) The disease has spread I guess...

  

  Kai Hahto Nightwish
  • Feeling
  • Play
  • Son

• Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Self
  • Revenge
  • Left

• It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • World
  • History
  • Culture

• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Die
  • Vegetarian
  • Assures

• History is rooted in the future

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Historical
  • Rooted