Timothy Morton Quotes

Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
Born: Jun 19, 1968
Being Ecological Job Nature Think You
Related authors: Alan Watts Francis Bacon George Henry Lewes Herbert Spencer Jeremy Bentham John Locke John Stuart Mill Thomas Hobbes
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. Timothy Morton
Future Past Everything Sliding Touching Over Another Past And Future Junction Where Railway
When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. Timothy Morton
Nature You Spider Big Mountains Grass Tree Definitely Find Some Something Rusty Point Environment Nails Between Over Look Shed Big Difference Hammer Difference Pavement Things
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. Timothy Morton
Intimacy Degrees Totally Only Directly Since Known Greater Cannot Lesser Thing
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. Timothy Morton
Environmental Nature Travel Progress Achieve Distance Environmental Issues Invoking Always Real Issues Measures
Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. Timothy Morton
Nature Will Long Remain Powerful Sure Inescapable Aesthetic Effective Very Experiences
I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world. Timothy Morton
People World Unhappy About Something Idea Makes Understand Self-Interest Them Appealing
Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there. Timothy Morton
Problems Too Much Too Ways System Bacteria Some Various Fail Sort Stomach Different Dynamic Little Might Much Different Ways
Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular? Timothy Morton
Become Action Evidence Ecological Since Because Scientific Scientific Evidence Did Just Just Because Reason Popular Away Shy
American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. Timothy Morton
Voting Country Politicians Right-Wing Districts Having Messed Messed Up Been Lot Up American Across Deeply
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. Timothy Morton
Guilt Thought Stupid Press Bad Cheaper Know Intellectuals Much Button
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. Timothy Morton
Religion Guilt Collective Thinking Prevent Operating Course Unfortunately Specifically Level Designed Humans
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. Timothy Morton
Good You Strange Painting Tells Find Eat About Morally Something Instead Themselves Apple Apples
We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. Timothy Morton
Differences Despite Our End Human Human Beings In The End Beings
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space. Timothy Morton
Space Fluid Guilt Sense Everywhere Defining Ancient Moral Kinds Abject Count Greek Experienced Pollution Social Body Beings
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. Timothy Morton
Listening Care Free Free Speech Attention Without Being Used Being Used Speech
If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good. Timothy Morton
Good You Will Interview Spend Jobs Some Without Get Bank Whether Breaking Much Now Applying Suit
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. Timothy Morton
You Money Job Spending Some Get Going Essential Who
I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress. Timothy Morton
Good You Try Sorry Big Party Alcohol Good Place Stuff Go Conference Place Little Regress Really Fast
I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. Timothy Morton
Politics People Become Totally Make Understand Effort Refuse Who Fascist Spectacular
An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless. Timothy Morton
Argument Adjective Someone Nevertheless Access Accurate May Just Thing
My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good! Timothy Morton
Environmental Good Together Energy Research Nice Humanities Thirty Part Put Sciences Mates Cultures Center Social Rice Really Episodes Social Sciences
It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. Timothy Morton
Easier Idle Eric Than McCartney Paul Paul McCartney
If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps. Timothy Morton
You Eyes Healing Seen Someone Lays Most Although Being Happen Mean Certainly Trauma Helps Suffered Actually Things
Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care. Timothy Morton
Blame Care Seen Other Kind Some Indifference Open Without Praise Comment Person Just Being Held Means Your
An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. Timothy Morton
Unable Something Point Environment Nonetheless Precisely Strangely
I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. Timothy Morton
Work Love Reading David Because His Get Realism Started Started Reading Speculative
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