Terence McKenna Quotes

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

The purpose of life is life.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!