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Matter Quotes by Terence McKenna
- Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
- Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some…
- The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of…
- What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And…
- 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…
- Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter.…
- My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning…
- Time will perfect matter.
- You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
- 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…
- But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- 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
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine