Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

Terence McKenna

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Theater
  • Ensemble
  • Closeness

• I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Big

• Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Health

• Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Effort
  • Feet
  • Envy

• I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

  

  Lily King
  • Trying
  • Idea
  • Working

• My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Real
  • Quality

• There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Practice

• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Life
  • Light
  • Two

• Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • School
  • Ideas

• Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

  

  Martin Delany
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Education

• I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Country
  • School
  • Sports

• My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Interviews

• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Country
  • May

• As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't even been out with sitting up in the hot tub.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Summer
  • Saturday
  • Moves

• Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Responsible