William Irwin Thompson

“What is called for is a new humanism, one that is not defined by the limits of the city, but by the limits of the planet.”

“The new paradigm may be a religion of science, or a science of religion.”

“The university is a clear-cut instance of a institution that is ahead of its time in its ideology and behind the times in its organization.”

“Evil is the assertion of absolute relativity.”

“Knowledge is a process of subtraction. We don't see the world in its naked reality, but only as it is organized by our cultural biases.”

“We are the imaginal cells of the future planetary culture.”

“Civilization is the organization of cities, and a city is a container for a culture.”

“Culture is the imagination of the people.”

“History is the noise of a culture in the process of becoming.”

“Myth is the history of the soul.”

“We live in the imagination of an unseen reality.”

“To be out of place is to be in a state of potentiality.”

“We are moving from a world of problems to a world of dilemmas.”

“A city is a place where you are least likely to get eaten by a wolf.”