Terence McKenna Quotes

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Some things were beyond understanding.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

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.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

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

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.