William Irwin Thompson - Quotations

Quotations

• "That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth." (The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, 87)
• "A myth is never known; it is a relationship between the known and the unknowable." (The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, 87)
• "At the edge of consciousness, there are no explanations; there are only invocations of myth." (The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, 94)
• "If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you." (attributed)
• "Late capitalism is a plantation mentality." ("2006 Lindisfarne Lecture")
• "Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology."