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Act Quotes by Terence McKenna
- What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....…
- We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the…
- The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the…
- The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda…
- The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
- We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give…
- Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden