Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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My health is fine.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.
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I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.
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They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
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We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
