Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. This motivational Terence McKenna quotes will reconstruct your life.
Best Terence McKenna Quotes
- “What we call reality is, in fact, nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.” – Terence McKenna
- “Astonishment is the proper response to reality.” – Terence McKenna
- “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.” – Terence McKenna
- “The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation” – Terence McKenna
- “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.” – Terence McKenna
- “The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.” – Terence McKenna
- “Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.” – Terence McKenna
- “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer” – Terence McKenna
- “Worrying is betting against yourself.” – Terence McKenna
- “How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?” – Terence McKenna
- “Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.” – Terence McKenna
- “You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.” – Terence McKenna
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“For all we know, we know nothing.” – Terence McKenna
- “The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.” – Terence McKenna
- “If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.” – Terence McKenna
- “The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.” – Terence McKenna
- “There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don’t need to work on themselves.” – Terence McKenna
- “Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well, that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.” – Terence McKenna
- “Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.” – Terence McKenna
- “We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle” – Terence McKenna
- “The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.” – Terence McKenna
- “We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don’t need behind” – Terence McKenna
- “My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.” – Terence McKenna
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“How do we fight back? By creating art.” – Terence McKenna
- “Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.” – Terence McKenna
- “Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.” – Terence McKenna
- “The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.” – Terence McKenna
- “Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.” – Terence McKenna
- “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” – Terence McKenna
- “The only real experience that counts is your own.” – Terence McKenna
- “Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.” – Terence McKenna
- “Mind conjures miracles out of time.” – Terence McKenna
- “Cultures are virtual realities made of language.” – Terence McKenna
- “The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.” – Terence McKenna
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“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening” – Terence McKenna
- “There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.” – Terence McKenna
- “You put two egos together and you’ve either got a conflict, which is always interesting or better yet, a love affair.” – Terence McKenna
- “There is no knowledge without risk-taking.” – Terence McKenna
- “No one knows enough to worry.” – Terence McKenna
- “We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.” – Terence McKenna
- “We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.” – Terence McKenna
- “You aren’t an object. You’re a process of some sort.” – Terence McKenna
- “We live in condensations of our imagination” – Terence McKenna
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“It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.” – Terence McKenna
- “There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.” – Terence McKenna
- “I’m as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.” – Terence McKenna
- “The shaman is not merely a sick man or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.” – Terence McKenna
- “The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.” – Terence McKenna
- “Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness” – Terence McKenna
- “The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.” – Terence McKenna
- “Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas” – Terence McKenna
- “The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information” – Terence McKenna, Terence McKenna Quotes is from the book True Hallucinations.
- “To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.” – Terence McKenna
- “These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.” – Terence McKenna
- “History is rooted in the future” – Terence McKenna
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“Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.” – Terence McKenna
- “The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.” – Terence McKenna
- “Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best-laid plans.” – Terence McKenna
- “We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.” – Terence McKenna
- “Time will perfect matter.” – Terence McKenna
- “We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.” – Terence McKenna
- “We’re not dropping out here, we’re infiltrating and taking over.” – Terence McKenna
- “The surface of things is not where attention should rest.” – Terence McKenna
- “To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.” – Terence McKenna
- “Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.” – Terence McKenna
