Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

Terence McKenna

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Truth Is

• The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

  

  Felice Picano
  • School
  • Done
  • Goal

• Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Insecurity

• We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Great
  • God
  • Generosity

• How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hope
  • Past

• The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • Long
  • Dream

• I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Thinking
  • Hippie

• I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Up
  • She
  • Friend

• I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.

  

  Katherine Moennig

• At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Weird

• I'm a real Luddite.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Real

• I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Beautiful
  • Nice
  • Marketing

• I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Jesus
  • Blessed

• I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Hurt

• When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.

  

  Li Lu
  • Up
  • Country

• I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Respect
  • Atheist

• There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Institutions
  • Commonality