"The future is beyond knowing, but the present……" — William Irwin Thompson
"The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief."
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William Irwin Thompson
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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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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
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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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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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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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