Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

Terence McKenna

• Mind
• Imagination
• Language
• Ego
• Empowering
• Psychedelic

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.

  

  Lee Smolin
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• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

  

  Amaury Nolasco
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• Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

  

  Maurice Allais
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• I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

  

  Charles S. Dutton
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• I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

  

  David Axelrod
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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
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• It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

  

  Kate Crawford
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• It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
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• I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Time

• But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.

  

  Marie Helvin
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• Know your body, understand your mind, and embrace your spiritual path.

  

  Kathy Freston
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• The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

  

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  

  Nikolai Gogol
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• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Language