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Life Lines: Quotations from the Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

This book compiles a selection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes from the extensive works of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, exploring themes in philosophy, history, and social thought. more

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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was a German philosopher known for his profound insights into history and culture. His ideas have had a significant impact on modern political philosophy and theology. more

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“Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.”

“Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.”

“We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.”

“To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.”