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

“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.”

Animal Growth Psychics

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.”

Inspirational Life Reality

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Philosophical

“National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.”

Government Paid

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Philosophical

“It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.”

Impossible Impossible Becomes Possible

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Philosophical

“Time is a series of fluctuating variables.”

Series Variables

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Philosophical

“The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.”

Years Mind Technology

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Philosophical

“Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.”

Ideas Psychedelic Standing Out

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Philosophical

“It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.”

Way Language Development

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Philosophical

“There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.”

Space Universe Interiors

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Philosophical

“At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.”

Thinking Ideas Animal

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Philosophical

“By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.”

People Expectations Fundamentals

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Philosophical

“It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.”

Answers Masters Entity

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