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“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

Ifs Body Order Animal Team Conditions Machines Function Structure Mechanism Laborers

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.”

World Mean Art Minutes Conditions Months Taste Reflection Machines Flavor Art World Movie Business Unrelenting Flavor Of The Month

Author:Barbara Kruger

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.”

Humans Space Conditions Machines Ships Human Condition Time Machine Desdemona

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Believe May Real Reason Age Spiritual Term Conditions Machines Don't Believe Satisfaction Vague Dissatisfaction Youngsters Unrest

Author:Robert E. Howard

“. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.”

Source: War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness

“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.”

Humans Stills Lying Space Technology Fate Conditions Subjects Evidence Tests Machines Blind Ships Triumph Gravity Human Condition Star Gazing Time Machine Oedipus Desdemona

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.”

Humans Doe Political Church Religious Liberty Enemy Conditions Machines Positive Atheism Concentration Splits

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.”

Men Mind Humans Body Happiness Joy Secret Conditions Youth Genius Balance Normal Machines Ecstasy Destroying Perpetual Fountain Joy And Happiness Omnipotence Indicators Toxins Omniscience

Author:Walter Russell

“In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [...] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life.”