Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • You
  • Better

• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Very
  • Bed
  • Early

• "I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Yourself
  • Quit
  • rahab

• To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Vision

• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

  

  Zengzi
  • Work
  • Men
  • Humility

• In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work

• I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beauty
  • Gold
  • Wind

• I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.

  

  Sabriye Tenberken
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Person

• I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Underestimate
  • Least
  • Bisexuality

• The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Curiosity
  • Affair
  • Hills

• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin
  • Never
  • Friendship
  • Refuse

• I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Interesting
  • Find
  • Relation

• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

  

  Terence McKenna
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