895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Forces, visible and hidden, stretching back into one's past; migrations; religious conversions — our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.