William Irwin Thompson Quotes

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.

William Irwin Thompson

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
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  • End

• I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
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• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
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• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
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  • Chaos

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Chaos

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Think
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• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Attention
  • Serious
  • Young

• I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Society
  • Present
  • Chaos

• Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Death
  • City
  • Space

• I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Challenge

• You are not to come to Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you can bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or excellency at all in you.

  

  John Flavel
  • May
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Chaos
  • Danger
  • Rage