Facts about William Irwin Thompson

Occup.Philosopher
FromUSA
BornJuly 16, 1938
Age85 years

Summary

William Irwin Thompson is a famous Philosopher from USA, he/she is 85 years old and still alive, born July 16, 1938.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective. Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by William.

16 Famous quotes by William Irwin Thompson

Small: With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to m
"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"
Small: The teacher of historys work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a perfo
"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"
Small: One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place o
"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"
Small: The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos
"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos"
Small: Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World
"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World"
Small: A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies rather,
"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"
Small: Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysteri
"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"
Small: The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, th
"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"
Small: If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you
"If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you"
Small: The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos i
"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered"
Small: Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer sim
"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"
Small: For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformat
"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"
Small: In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow econ
"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy"
Small: Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose
"Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose"
Small: Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot
"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"
Small: Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence
"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"