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Timothy Morton Quotes

English - Philosopher | June 19, 1968 -

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

Think You Feeling Kind Way Irony

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

Action Just Because Shy Become Just

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

World Stage Russia Homophobic Deeply

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

Future Time Imagination Important

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

Consumerism Within Unfortunately Some

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

Thought Consumerism Peril Ecological

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

Stupid Thought Guilt Bad Know Press

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

Religion Thinking Guilt Level Course

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

People Action Fate Doing Trying You

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

Good Painting You Apple Find Eat

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

Beauty Pretty Concepts Accord

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

Beauty Experience Feeling Why Beyond

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