Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

Terence McKenna

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• I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Past
  • Ideology