Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.Terence McKenna
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I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?
Sebastian Thrun -
Your fingers smell of incense—a lover sings to the corpse of his dead sweetheart.
Bel Kaufman -
I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
Stanley Kubrick -
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
Terrence Mitchell Riley -
I think if you're happy and you're a nice person and you have a nice personality that always shines through.
Nicola Roberts
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You can’t come back. It was written like this, meant to be like this and you can’t change destiny. What happened was because it had to happen. I had great moments in my life and I’m happy with what I achieved.
Nicolas Anelka -
A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.
Emmanuelle Alt -
Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
Enele Sopoaga -
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
Terence McKenna -
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
Terence McKenna -
I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.
Terence McKenna
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Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
Will Ferrell -
You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."
Will Ferrell -
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams -
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
Ansel Adams -
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.
Evgeny Morozov -
For good is simple, evil manifold.
Aristotle
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I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.
Anton Newcombe -
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
Terence McKenna -
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.
Terence McKenna -
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
Terence McKenna