Terence McKenna Quotes

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Terence McKenna

Earth, Ourselves, Room

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Terence McKenna

Problem, Around, Move

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
Terence McKenna

History, Mind, Last

I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
Terence McKenna

Live, Small, House

In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
Terence McKenna

Time, Matter, Fact

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
Terence McKenna

Nature, Novelty, Prefers

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
Terence McKenna

God, Whatever, Somebody

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
Terence McKenna

Waiting, Cannot, Earth

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
Terence McKenna

Golden, Pathway, Everywhere

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.
Terence McKenna

Everything, Wrong, Times

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Terence McKenna

Become, Matter, Alive

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
Terence McKenna

Mind, Internet, Birth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 16, 1946

Died: April 3, 2000

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