Terence McKenna Quotes

American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946–2000)

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances (primarily plant-based psychedelics) as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness. His ideas often revolve around his novelty theory of the universe.

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Native Name: Terence Kempes McKenna

Alternative Names: Terence Kemp McKenna

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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Take care and say this with presence of mind.

This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.

Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus

Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.

I did not care one straw.

The very flower of youth.

There are vicissitudes in all things.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!

si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti.

It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined.

Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.

Modo liceat vivere, est spes.

How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!