Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Terence McKenna

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• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Real
  • Church

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Together
  • Science

• The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Thinking
  • Single
  • Civilization

• You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Bad
  • Looks
  • Two

• Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

  

  Plato
  • Wishes
  • Politician
  • Statesman

• Men are led by trifles.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Trifles
  • Led

• Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Water
  • Honest

• The ancient triumph of Christianity proved to be the single greatest cultural transformation our world has ever seen. Without it the entire history of Late Antiquity would not have happened as it did. We would never have had the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Renaissance, or modernity as we know it. There could never have been a Matthew Arnold. Or any of the Victorian poets. Or any of the other authors of our canon: no Milton, no Shakespeare, no Chaucer. We would have had none of our revered artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, or Rembrandt. And none of our brilliant composers: Mozart, Handel, or Bach. To be sure, we would have had other Miltons, Michelangelos, and Mozarts in their places, and it is impossible to know whether these would have been better or worse. But they would have been incalculably different.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • History
  • Artists
  • Transformation

• Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Sense

• At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • America
  • Theater

• The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

  

  Dan Smoot
  • Create
  • System
  • Ultimate

• If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Civilization
  • Consequence
  • Ultimate