Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Terence McKenna

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Remember
  • Air
  • Movement

• 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

  

  Laura Wade
  • World
  • Want
  • Political

• Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

  

  Karl Marx

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Done
  • Pain

• The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Sweet

• For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

  

  Mary Bono

• I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

  

  Byron Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Serious

• I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Hand

• You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Movie
  • Young
  • Jokes

• To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Animals
  • Protect
  • Rights

• A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Proud

• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Pleasures

• People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.

  

  Walter Munk
  • Water
  • Air
  • Ocean

• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Moon