Terence McKenna

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• Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon.

  “True Hallucinations” (1993)

  • Freedom
  • Government

• 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.

  “Alien Dreamtime” a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)

  • Talking

• I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we’re surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what’s out there.

  Spacetime Tsunami, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.

  • Knowledge

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy