William Irwin Thompson

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

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

“Culture is the imagination of the people.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Myth is the history of the soul.”

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

“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.”

“Evil is the assertion of absolute relativity.”

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

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

“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.”