William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompsonis known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is the founder of the Lindisfarne Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 July 1938
CountryUnited States of America
William Irwin Thompson quotes about
education storytelling our-time
Science is the storytelling of our time.
order roots chaos
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
heart names tree
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.
player long mind
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.