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Mind Quotes by Terence McKenna
- There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine…
- I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what…
- The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine…
- People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of…
- Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
- Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form…
- 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…
- I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends…
- You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks…
- Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...
- If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us…
- The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice…
- What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost…
- Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In…
- What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the…
- Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
- It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure…
- There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go…
- We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player,…
- 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 Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle