All Quotes by Timothy Morton
“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.”
“Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'”
“Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.”
“Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.”
“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.”