Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

Terence McKenna

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• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Boy

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Egoism

• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Dead
  • Buried
  • Arrived

• Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Company
  • Anybody

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • War

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War

• I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Spiritual

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Giving
  • Forever

• I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The big idea of, 'Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet' - that's on the horizon; that's how we built everything we do.

  

  Jeremy Allaire

• I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Believe
  • Control

• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

  

  Diplo
  • Work
  • Mad

• Lots of Americans, they do think that yes, Russian hackers are everywhere. Russian hackers are in every fridge, Russian hackers are in every iron and so on and so forth. But this is not true. Those are fake news and this is slander.

  

  Dmitry Peskov
  • Everywhere
  • Russian
  • Hackers

• I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Great
  • Value
  • Period

• Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Help
  • Drug

• Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dream
  • Drug
  • Keys