Molecules Quote by Terence McKenna

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

— Antonio Damasio

It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that…

— Frederick Lenz

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

— Muhammad Iqbal

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause…

— Terence McKenna

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

— Anne Carson

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are ...

— Jean Houston

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

— John Dewey

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can…

— Robert Penn Warren

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

— Marcel Proust

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

— John Charles Polanyi

Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts to a…

— Norah Vincent