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Things Quotes by Terence McKenna
- 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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
- Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
- Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in…
- The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of…
- The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be…
- 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…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle