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William Irwin Thompson Quotes

William Irwin Thompson quotes

American Philosopher July 16, 1938

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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
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
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
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
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
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
William Irwin Thompson quote: "The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its..."
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. William Irwin Thompson
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
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
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
William Irwin Thompson quote: "In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to..."
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson quote: "If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate..."
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson quote: "Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose."
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. William Irwin Thompson
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
William Irwin Thompson quote: "The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract..."
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. William Irwin Thompson

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