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Top 20 Timothy Morton Quotes (2024 Update)

Timothy Morton Quote: “Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.”

1. “Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “The ecological thought affects all aspects of life, culture, and society.”

2. “The ecological thought affects all aspects of life, culture, and society.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Personhood then is also in the mesh – it may look solid from a distance, but as we approach it we discover that it is full of holes.”

3. “Personhood then is also in the mesh – it may look solid from a distance, but as we approach it we discover that it is full of holes.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”

4. “Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.”

5. “The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “It’s ironic that we can imagine the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves more readily than we can the collapse of the banking system-and despite this, amazingly, as this book was written, the banking system did collapse.”

6. “It’s ironic that we can imagine the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves more readily than we can the collapse of the banking system-and despite this, amazingly, as this book was written, the banking system did collapse.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists but whose content we don’t know. When we share it with other, it’s as if we are in on the same secret. We look at each other in amazement or with knowing look. But it’s impossible to specify what this secret is. Only the fact that there is a secret is of any importance. Beauty is based on the raw fact of the secret as such.”

7. “The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists but whose content we don’t know. When we share it with other, it’s as if we are in on the same secret. We look at each other in amazement or with knowing look. But it’s impossible to specify what this secret is. Only the fact that there is a secret is of any importance. Beauty is based on the raw fact of the secret as such.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Writing about music really is like dancing about architecture – and a good thing, too. Everything is like that.”

8. “Writing about music really is like dancing about architecture – and a good thing, too. Everything is like that.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.”

9. “Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy – for some, strangely or frighteningly easy – to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up.”

10. “The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy – for some, strangely or frighteningly easy – to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “The more we analyze, the more ambiguous things become.”

11. “The more we analyze, the more ambiguous things become.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.”

12. “For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.”

13. “Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all. Fragility is also why anything at all can happen. Existence is incompleteness. This fragility is activated in what is called destruction.”

14. “I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all. Fragility is also why anything at all can happen. Existence is incompleteness. This fragility is activated in what is called destruction.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “A certain degree of audiovisual hallucination happens when we read poetry.”

15. “A certain degree of audiovisual hallucination happens when we read poetry.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? “A beautiful way to die” – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.”

16. “In the event of beauty, a non-self part of my inner space seems to resonate in the colors on the wall, in the sounds pouring into my ears. Hugely amplified, might this resonance actually kill me? “A beautiful way to die” – to be destroyed by vibrations that removed myself from myself.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academig drag?”

17. “Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academig drag?”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Being a person means never being sure that you’re one.”

18. “Being a person means never being sure that you’re one.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “Death is powerful and compelling; life is fragile and shivery.”

19. “Death is powerful and compelling; life is fragile and shivery.”

— Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Quote: “When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself “over there,” you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.”

20. “When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself “over there,” you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.”

— Timothy Morton

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