If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack… — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy… — William Hague Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated… — Dick Clement Copy Share Image
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
