"It is not easy to measure the ocean,……" — Terence McKenna
"It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it."
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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a…
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will…
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth.…
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
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The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this…
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they…
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according…
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