Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

Terence McKenna

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• If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Failure

• I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Great
  • Career
  • Want

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Success
  • Positive

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Real
  • Money
  • Technology

• Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Long
  • Desire

• I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Happy

• Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

  

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet

• I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Powerful

• True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

  

  Homer
  • Moved
  • Counterfeit
  • True Friends

• The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • World
  • Good
  • Learn

• Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Democracy
  • Identity
  • Sick