Inspirational Quotes by Terence McKenna

The engineers of the future will be poets.

— Terence McKenna

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

— Terence McKenna

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

How do we fight back? By creating art.

— Terence McKenna

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

— Terence McKenna

Culture is your operating system.

— Terence McKenna

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

— Terence McKenna

You're immortal as long as you live.

— Terence McKenna

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

— Terence McKenna

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

— Terence McKenna

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

— Terence McKenna

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

— Terence McKenna

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

— Terence McKenna

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.

— Terence McKenna

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

— Terence McKenna

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,

— Terence McKenna

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return…

— Terence McKenna

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

— Terence McKenna

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble…

— Terence McKenna

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than…

— Terence McKenna

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's…

— Terence McKenna

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is…

— Terence McKenna

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul…

— Terence McKenna

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus…

— Terence McKenna

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

— Terence McKenna

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

— Terence McKenna

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

— Terence McKenna

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

— Terence McKenna

Worrying is betting against yourself.

— Terence McKenna

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

— Terence McKenna

I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis

— Terence McKenna

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

— Terence McKenna

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

— Terence McKenna

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with…

— Terence McKenna

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

— Terence McKenna

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

— Terence McKenna

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

— Terence McKenna

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

— Terence McKenna

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

— Terence McKenna