Timothy Morton

I love folding laundry.

— Timothy Morton

“Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.”

— Timothy Morton

I like being irritating.

— Timothy Morton

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.

— Timothy Morton

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

— Timothy Morton

Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.

— Timothy Morton

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

— Timothy Morton

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

— Timothy Morton

“Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academig drag?”

— Timothy Morton

“For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.”

— Timothy Morton

It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

— Timothy Morton

I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I…

— Timothy Morton

I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

— Timothy Morton

The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow…

— Timothy Morton

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and…

— Timothy Morton

“Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.”

— Timothy Morton

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

— Timothy Morton

A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to…

— Timothy Morton

The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being…

— Timothy Morton

Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred…

— Timothy Morton

“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

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights…

— Timothy Morton

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating…

— Timothy Morton

Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If…

— Timothy Morton

“I think that this music could liquefy my internal organs, make my ears bleed (this has actually occurred), send me into seizures.…

— Timothy Morton

Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside…

— Timothy Morton

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed,…

— Timothy Morton

“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise…

— Timothy Morton

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This…

— Timothy Morton

“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we…

— Timothy Morton

“The strategy of this book, then, is to awaken us from the dream that the world is about to end, because action…

— Timothy Morton

“We can get a sense of it, to be sure, though it will upgrade our ideas of "real" and "thing" to boot.…

— Timothy Morton

“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary…

— Timothy Morton

“Beauty is nonconceptual. Nothing in the object directly explains it.”

— Timothy Morton

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

— Timothy Morton

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

— Timothy Morton

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

— Timothy Morton

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

— Timothy Morton

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

— Timothy Morton

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

— Timothy Morton