A Quote by Terence McKenna

History is the siren song of the soul.

Terence McKenna

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History Siren Siren Song Song Soul

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Terence McKenna
American - Writer
November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Henry Taylor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Walter Savage Landor

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

John Podhoretz

It was a kind of siren song that called me out to the front lines.

James Foley

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

Hafez

This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.

Halldor Laxness

In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

Frank Chodorov

Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.

Alice Cooper

We should invest in healthcare... We can and we should do all of this without succumbing to the siren song of big government.

Tate Reeves

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

James Russell Lowell

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

George Chapman

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

Svetlana Alexievich

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

David Blunkett

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.