We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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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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