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Top 16 William Irwin Thompson Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“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

“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

“If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.”

― 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

“Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.”

― 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

“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

“In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.”

― William Irwin Thompson

“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

“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

“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

“The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.”

― 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

“Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.”

― 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

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