Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Keseywas an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 September 1935
CityLa Junta, CO
CountryUnited States of America
apples seeds
You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
steps march
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
love educational philosophy
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
giving offense
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
needs answers mystery
Sometimes the need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
inspirational life world
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
memories sound fade-away
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.
motivational jobs garden
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
together sticks cases
Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.
relationship happiness smile
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
drug important criminals
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
apology winning thinking
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
reflection men failing
Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.
guy seven wrists
Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?