--- title: "13 Century Quotes By Terence McKenna" description: "13 Century quotes by Terence McKenna. Plus more from Terence McKenna and more Century sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d27/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_the-main-thing-going-on-in-the-20th-cent_2533343.png" --- > [The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-main-thing-going-on-in-the-20th-century-is-a-dissolving-of/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d27/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_the-main-thing-going-on-in-the-20th-cent_2533343.png) > [In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/in-the-way-that-the-15th-century-discovered-the-new-world-the-20th/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_in-the-way-that-the-15th-century-discove_793287.png) > [Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/transformation-of-language-through-psychedelic-drugs-is-a-central/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/638/terence-mckenna-287_century_transformation-of-language-through-psych_1714330.png) > [Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/television-is-to-my-mind-the-most-insidious-drug-that-the-20th/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_television-is-to-my-mind-the-most-insidi_3165933.png) > [To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/to-carry-language-from-two-dimensions-into-three-is-the-task-of-the/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_to-carry-language-from-two-dimensions-in_2312203.png) > [Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/even-as-the-nineteenth-century-had-to-come-to-grips-with-the-notion/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf7/terence-mckenna-287_apes_even-as-the-nineteenth-century-had-to-co_2742887.png) > [People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/people-are-in-the-confines-of-their-own-apartments-becoming-magellans/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/terence-mckenna-287_aliens_people-are-in-the-confines-of-their-own_2537063.jpg) > [This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-where-i-think-the-psychedelics-come-in-because-they-are/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d71/terence-mckenna-287_anticipation_this-is-where-i-think-the-psychedelics-c_1509129.jpg) > [The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-logos-is-a-voice-heard-in-the-head-and-the-logos-was-the-hand-on/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/terence-mckenna-287_ancient_the-logos-is-a-voice-heard-in-the-head-a_2851957.png) > [Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-that-is-that-it-s-going-to/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed2/terence-mckenna-287_19th-century_where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-t_1607141.jpg) > [In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/in-our-own-time-through-integrative-sciences-like-ecology-and-animal/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/terence-mckenna-287_animal_in-our-own-time-through-integrative-scie_3198538.png) > [Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/inwardness-is-the-characteristic-feature-of-the-vegetable-rather-than/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/terence-mckenna-287_animal_inwardness-is-the-characteristic-feature_425643.jpg) > [The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-20th-century-mind-is-nostalgic-for-the-paradise-that-once-existed/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f0/terence-mckenna-287_20th-century_the-20th-century-mind-is-nostalgic-for-t_1190708.jpg) ## Other authors on Century ## More by Terence McKenna > [History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/history-was-an-incredibly-damaging-experience-and-now-it-s-over-in-a/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-history-of-man-that-you-don-t-know-is-what-your-unconscious-is/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-consciousness-we-may-not-always-be-monkeys/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-here-is-we-are-living-past-the-age-by-the-millions/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-history-is-essentially-is-a-careening-out-of-control-effort-to/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-what-is-the-primary-datum-it-s-the-felt-presence-of-immediate/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/our-culture-difinitely-takes-an-egocentric-dominator-view-the-fear-of/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/every-step-into-freedom-contains-within-it-the-potential-for-greater/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-the-message-of-your-life-and-my-life-it-s-that-nothing-lasts/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/knowledge-or-verbal-facility-is-no-proof-that-you-know-what-you-re/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/no-culture-on-earth-is-as-heavily-narcotized-as-the-industrial-west/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/man-was-not-put-on-this-planet-to-toil-in-the-mud-or-the-god-who-put/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) > [If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-you-take-psychedelics-and-the-internet-and-music-and-put-all-of/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/century/terence-mckenna/#itemlist", "name": "13 Century Quotes By Terence McKenna", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical 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It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terence McKenna" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-that-is-that-it-s-going-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed2/terence-mckenna-287_19th-century_where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-t_1607141.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed2/terence-mckenna-287_19th-century_where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-t_1607141.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed2/terence-mckenna-287_19th-century_where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-t_1607141.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language…” — Terence McKenna", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. 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