Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.
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We still have so much people don't understand.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.
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Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
