Mind Blowing Quotes - Page 4

• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

  Terence McKenna

  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Sick, Healed

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• ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Knowing, Vacuums

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.38, Prometheus Books

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• Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Cosmos, Language

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

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• We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

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• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Ideas, Imagination

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Long, Firsts

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• We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Teaching, Years

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• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Heart, Moon

  "The Archaic Revival". Book by Terence McKenna, 1991.

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• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

  Terence McKenna

  Luxury, Blowing It, Privilege

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Visionaries, Noble

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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Dmt, Consciousness

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• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

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• Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Thinking, Differences

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• The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

  Barack Obama

  Prayer, Islam, Sound

  "Politically Incorrect Reflections on Obama at the Mosque" by Arnold Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2016.

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Eras, Typos

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2011

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• If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Creepy, Haunting, Ghost

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2011

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• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  Michael Ian Black

  Growing Up, Hero, Wonder Woman

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

  Eric Kripke

  Crazy, Character, People

  "Creator Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, How It’s Different from SUPERNATURAL, and Ideas for Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Excellence

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

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• My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

  "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA". www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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