Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.' — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.” — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.” — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Beauty is nonconceptual. Nothing in the object directly explains it.” — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
