"Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity." — Terence McKenna
"Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
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- Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
- There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
- We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
- Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
- I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
- LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
- Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
- We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
- History is rooted in the future
- What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…