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

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

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

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

- William Irwin Thompson

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

- 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…

- 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…

- William Irwin Thompson

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. Wh…

- William Irwin Thompson