Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Time
  • Long
  • Remember

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Serious
  • Look
  • Airline

• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
  • Geniuses

• But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Cannot
  • Foreign

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Band
  • Attitude

• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Negative

• Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Dad

• Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Age
  • Small
  • Dying

• The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind

• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Today

• When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Important
  • Long

• In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. This law acts upon all aspects of one's life, shaping its course and destiny.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Life
  • Society
  • Law

• It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Law
  • Levels