Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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