Terence McKenna Quotes

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”

“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.”

“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”

“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.”

“To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.”

“Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection we have forfeited our manhood.”

“To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.”

“All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.”

“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”