"Even as the nineteenth century had to come……" — Terence McKenna
"Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes."
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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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More Apes Quotes
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one of 234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
— Jared Diamond
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