It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
![“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24e/terence-mckenna-287_atmosphere_the-current-operating-system-culture-is_2601815.jpg)
