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“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Art Would Be Turns Painting Machines Asking Aim Mere Satisfied More Time Enthusiastic Incomplete Collectors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.”

Should Character Law Judging Machines Mercy Let Me Mere Giver

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

“I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.”

Way Should Mind Humans Stills Self Matter Feelings Human Beings Achievement Smart Concepts Machines Intelligent Innovation Structure Mere Convinced Representation Evident Propositions Spatial

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.”

Mind Mean Long Character Can Do Steps Taken Machines Mere Senses Gathering Power Of The Mind Outgoing

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.”

People World Needs Eye Numbers Identity Adventure Bears Walking Machines Stress Mere Unseen Love Someone Awakened Lifeless Terminal Need Love Cogs Loving Eyes

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.”

Knows Men Wells Shows Purpose Understanding Machines Mere Philosopher Tendencies Mechanism Machinery Lack Of Understanding

Author:Arthur Young

“A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”

“It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.”

Men World Whole Political Humanity Loss Liberty Virtue Objects Gains Machines Instruments Mere Leaving Free Will Cherish Benevolence American Liberty

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.”

Life Firsts Self Enough Science Force Acting Shapes First Time Connections Machines Bases Mere Heat Comparison Poetic Engines Mechanism Evident Coal Puzzles Combustion Locomotives

Author:Carl Ludwig

“The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.”

Men Pieces Air Capable Machines Mere Cease Flight Primaries Guidance Aviation Pilots Mechanism Temperament Aeroplanes

Author:Ross Macpherson Smith

“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.”