William Irwin Thompson Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by William Irwin Thompson Thompson is influenced by British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Swiss cultural historian Jean Gebser, mystic Rudolf Steiner, the Vedic philosopher Sri Aurobindo Ghose, the famous Kriya Yoga proponent Paramahansa Yogananda with his introduction of Hindu Vedic principles and practices (such as yoga) to the Western populace, and media ecologist Marshall McLuhan. Thompson engages a diverse set of traditions, including the autopoetic... Read full biography of William Irwin Thompson → 1 2 Ctrl → If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from... → 0 For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is... → 0 The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. 0 Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their... → 0 In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. 0 The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. 0 Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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16 quotes by William Irwin Thompson