"Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to……" — Terence McKenna
"Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna has 202 quotes on this site.
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
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History is rooted in the future
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
— Mitch Albom
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship.…
— Jennifer Aniston
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I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
— Diablo Cody
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I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and…
— Dianna Agron
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Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the…
— Jack Smith
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I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe…
— Helen Merrill
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Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached…
— Walter J. Ong
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside…
— Richard Rohr
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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