Quotes by William Irwin Thompson - Page 1

Science is the storytelling of our time.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Education
Our Time
Storytelling
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Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Conscious
Independent
Purpose
Unconscious
Emerge
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Belief
Knowing
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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Maps
Process
World
Complete
Ideologies
Map
Processes
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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Moving On
Destiny
Fate
Moving Forward
Destiny Your Will
Inflicted
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Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Fairy Tale
History Of Life
Natural
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Nature
Science
Chaos
Conscious
Disruption
Purpose
Unconscious
Effect
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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Black
Cop
Domain
Shadow
Structure
Cops
Serve
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Islands
Knowing
Sea
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Science
Abstract
Chaos
Holds
Systems
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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Edges
Frontiers
Has Beens
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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Artificial
Culture
Institutions
Mistake
Institution
Located
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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Chaos
Dangerous
Hysterical
Idealistic
Order
Rage
Roots
Unbalanced
Amidst
Simply
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We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Generations
Growth
Race
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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Bifurcation
Development
Emergence
Fork In The Road
Use
Begins
Branch
Fork
Marks
New Line
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A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Process
Structure
Unconscious
World
Ideologies
Institution
Nor
Processes
Rather
Relations
Scientific
Symbiotic
System
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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Karma
Imagination
Conscious
Divorced
Feelings
Thinking
Unconscious
Actions
Alienated
Expressed
Reflected
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Change
Smile
Acceleration
Billions
Emergence
Evolution
Human Evolution
Language
Millions
Rate
Years
Further
Hominid
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The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Teacher
Culture
Description
Past
Cultures
Ideally
Increasingly
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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Imagination
Catastrophe
Domain
Feels
Embodied
Experienced
Sensation
Stimulated
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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Men
Book
Writing
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Genius
Movement
Patterns
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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Change
Civilization
Emergence
Rate
Years
Centuries
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Millennia
Shifted
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Enough
Evolution
First Time
Human Evolution
Individual
Individual Life
Long
Mind
Player
Transformation
Life Time Culture
Life Time Mind
Now
Life Time Enough
First
Constituent
Cultural
Global
Swift
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But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Darkness
Reality
Sleep
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If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Heart
Names
Tree
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The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Earth
Moon
Unity
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I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Order
Pain
Thinking
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If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Artist
Mean
Reality
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Environmental
Distance
Moving
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What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Quality
Unique
Unity
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Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.
William Irwin Thompson / Critic
Moving
Past
Reality
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