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History Quotes by Terence McKenna
- History is rooted in the future
- History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
- There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if…
- My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape…
- The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
- Human history is a Gaian dream.
- Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory…
- History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough