Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
believe easily hope
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
believe easily hope
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
along believe bought consumer economy february investors losses moving obviously sitting slow spending stock stocks though volatility
We don't yet believe that consumer spending is going to slow dramatically even though there has been a lot of volatility in the stock market. Obviously there are a lot of investors out there who were sitting on big losses from stocks they bought from February through March. But we still see the economy as moving along strongly.
believe mind facts
Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.
avoid believe building isolated monster showing tried
I believe in building things up, naturally, but I've never isolated the monster from the world around, or tried to avoid showing him.
believe self data
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques- all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.
believe perspective revolution
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
believe psychics dimensions
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
believe thinking gnosis
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
attitude believe opposites
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite..
believe hallucinogens shamanism
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
believe imagination expansion
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
believe reality working-very-hard
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
believe belief form
Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.