"In the domain of cops and robbers, an……" — William Irwin Thompson
"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy."
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26 Quotes by William Irwin Thompson
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper…
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is…
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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to…
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But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the…
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there…
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If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their…
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
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If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted…
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that…
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