Terence McKenna Quotes

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.