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.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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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.
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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.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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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.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
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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
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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.
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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
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We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.
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I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.
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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
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The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
