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
Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life. Timothy Morton
Life Simple Before Prince Very Personal Pop
'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.' Timothy Morton
Touch Empirically Edges Mean Separated Hard Measurable
OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. Timothy Morton
Added Back Abject Objects Like Subjects Behave Patriarchal
There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger. Timothy Morton
Flux More Bottle Instance Tiger Real Than Any Essence Milk
I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. Timothy Morton
Space Beauty Evidence Discover
Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? Timothy Morton
Feeling Clever Drops Feel Make Happens Her Elimination
In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos. Timothy Morton
Needs Me Legal Yourself Lawyer Define Say Correct Definition Possession Signal Some About Someone Something Lawyers Argue Wrong Empirical Like Supposedly Person Being Transcendental Regarding Fun Using Fun Thing Thing Zoo
Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? Timothy Morton
Me Numerous Bacteria Hosting Simply Vehicle Am Inhabit
Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. Timothy Morton
You Conversation Space Think Say Some Always Than Less Need
Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given. Timothy Morton
Sense Nothing Nothingness Constant Physical Disturbing Given Part Presence
Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. Timothy Morton
Our Emergency Ecological Demands Reactive Proactive Choices
I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. Timothy Morton
Myself You Think Possibly Could Like Most Awful Thing Imagine
I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere. Timothy Morton
Pour Holding Carefully Unleash Everywhere Kind Spilling Like Well Well Known Known Without Been Years Years And Years Very Precious Get Liquid Any Going Quite Then Now Thing
The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples out in many dimensions, and in whose wake we are caught. Timothy Morton
Time Wave Dimensions Out Ripples Point Take Catastrophe Does Caught Linear Wake Place Certain Certain Point Many Event Whose
Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. Timothy Morton
Trouble Consider Magical Only Causality Existence Children Anyone Who Need Imagining
Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. Timothy Morton
Reality Losing Than Fantasy Much Harder
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things. Timothy Morton
Consider Arguing Advantage Alongside Call Aesthetic Causality Us Things Consciousness
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem. Timothy Morton
Nature Problem Trouble Tool Slit Ecological Like Perhaps Calling Arrow Fix Modern Medieval
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