Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
Speech happens to not be his language.
-
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
-
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
-
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
-
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
-
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
-
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
-
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
-
Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
-
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
-
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
-
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
-
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
-
I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.
-
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
-
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
-
On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?
-
Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
-
People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.
-
When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.
-
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
-
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
