Terence McKenna Quotes

The world is not always ours to understand.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

We live in a bewildering world.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.