Terence McKenna — Philosophical Quotes

553 quotes · Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

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Terence McKenna Quotes

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.”

Self Reflection Recognition

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.”

Trying Mind Ontology

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Philosophical

“The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.”

Real Opaque

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Philosophical

“It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.”

Needs Our Lives

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Philosophical

“It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.”

Feel Better Next Day Hallucinogens

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Philosophical

“If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.”

Mean Mind Looks

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Philosophical

“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

Ocean Easy

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Philosophical

“Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.”

Dream Degrees Cousin

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Philosophical

“This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.”

Believe Lying Historical

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Philosophical

“Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.”

Views Space Transition

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Philosophical

“I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.”

Thinking Circles Landscape

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Philosophical

“Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'”

Lying Waiting Intelligent

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