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.

Terence McKenna

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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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rock

• America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• 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.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Up
  • School
  • Heart

• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Great
  • May
  • Imagination

• But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small

• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Earth

• Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Bigs
  • Okay
  • Knickers

• The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lonely

• Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Goals

• We still have so much people don't understand.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People

• Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

  

  Craig Claiborne
  • Bad
  • Green
  • Physique

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Exercise

• Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • Always
  • Happen
  • Interests

• I always pray before fighting. I pray in the corner, in the hotel room – maybe two hours before I go to the arena. It takes me far – I see a big difference when you pray and go into a fight; you have more strength and also you know God’s helping you.

  

  Amir Khan
  • Fighting
  • Strength
  • Pray

• Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Crazy
  • Find
  • Passionate

• Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Humans
  • Functioning
  • Distort

• Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Book
  • Brain
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Facts
  • Psychedelic