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
easily needs
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
mind dirt needs
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
taken historical needs
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
facts needs theory
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
play needs exploration
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
social-behavior needs dilemma
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
dmt three needs
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
needs metaphor
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
needs our-lives
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
needs enlightened
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
media our-society needs
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
earnings hike rate reports situation
I still think earnings reports are going to be very good, ... I think we're getting to the end of rate hike situation on the part of the Fed.
alien human
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
So many men, so many opinions; everyone his own way.