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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/one-way-to-find-food-for-thought-is-to-use-the-fork-in-the-road-the/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/)

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## More by William Irwin Thompson

> [The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/the-planets-are-not-hunks-of-stuff-out-there-but-nodes-of-vibration/)

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> [In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/in-the-domain-of-cops-and-robbers-an-interdiction-serves-to-structure/)

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> [Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/ideologies-do-not-map-the-complete-living-processes-of-a-world/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/)

> [That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/that-shoreline-where-the-island-of-knowing-meets-the-unfathomable-sea/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/)

> [What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/what-is-at-the-higher-levels-of-meaning-consciousness-is-like-a/)

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> [Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/idealistic-reformers-are-dangerous-because-their-idealism-has-no/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/like-a-shadow-that-does-not-permit-us-to-jump-over-it-but-moves-with/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/the-teacher-of-history-s-work-should-be-ideally-not-simply-a/)

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> [The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/the-more-chaos-there-is-the-more-science-holds-on-to-abstract-systems/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/a-world-is-not-an-ideology-nor-a-scientific-institution-nor-is-it/)

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> [Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/catastrophes-are-often-stimulated-by-the-failure-to-feel-the/)

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> [But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/but-the-time-has-come-the-revelation-has-already-occurred-and-the/)

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> [I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/i-don-t-think-anyone-now-really-understands-the-planetisation-of/)

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> [With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/with-the-emergence-of-civilization-the-rate-of-change-shifted-from/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/)

> [If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/if-you-do-not-create-your-destiny-you-will-have-your-fate-inflicted/)

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