Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
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• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

  

  Zach Woods
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• The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
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• We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

  

  T. H. White
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• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • America
  • History
  • Past

• But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Dream
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• Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love

  

  Kabir Helminski
  • Good
  • Important
  • Soul

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
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  • Fine

• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  

  Al-Maʿarri
  • Error
  • Fools
  • Knaves

• To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Deception

• With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

  

  Ray McKinnon
  • Enough
  • Fiction
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• When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

  

  Laird Hamilton
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  • Friends
  • Fly

• There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.

  

  Alan Ryan
  • City
  • Views
  • Population

• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Population
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