Terence Quotes

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

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.

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

History is rooted in the future

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

What is needed, is an awakening.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

She never was really charming till she died.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.