Terence McKenna Quotes

At times I think and at times I am.

The actuality of thought is life.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Life is a state of consciousness.

I think, therefore I am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

I desire therefore I exist.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

To be is to be perceived

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

To live is to think.

Life is but thought.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Presence is more than just being there.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.