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.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. - William Irwin Thompson
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
- 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 an… - 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 an…
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is … - 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 …
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 aw… - William Irwin Thompson
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 aw…
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief. - William Irwin Thompson
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. - William Irwin Thompson
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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 p… - William Irwin Thompson
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 p…
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 alienat… - William Irwin Thompson
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 alienat…
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 n… - William Irwin Thompson
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 n…
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