"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 live and are increasingly taking our being."
-William Irwin Thompson
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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 experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.“
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"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."
-William Irwin Thompson
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"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling."
-William Irwin Thompson
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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."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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