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Inspirational Life Quotes by Terence McKenna
- The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
- Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
- I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
- Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
- How do we fight back? By creating art.
- 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 not there why…
- Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
- Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making…
- As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
- Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
More Inspirational Life Quotes
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey