“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.” MenShouldPhilosophyBodyUsedHealingBrainProgressProductsBalanceShould HaveMachinesHarmInventionCyclesBikeBeneficialConvenienceTouringBicycleAttainmentPrecisionCyclingIrritationBikingCyclistsTandemTandem BikesTandem Bicycles Author:Elizabeth West
“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.” ShouldFirstsPhilosophyPlayLastsInterestingAirPoetDemandMachinesPhilosophicalFlyingAbsurdMediumsInstancePianoPoetry IsRequirementsTanksSewingForlornMethodical Author:Randall Jarrell
“Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyLiteratureAnswersAliveTruth IsMachinesErrorsValuableMistaken Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.” DoeArtPhilosophyHistoryMachinesDustSettlingOur TimeRoaring Book:All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen Source: All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
“Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.” IdeasPhilosophyChangedBirthMachinesScience FictionInventionBombsPillsBirth ControlHydrogenHydrogen BombBirth Control Pills Author:Ray Bradbury
“There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.” MindHumansMeanTwoWarEndsPhilosophySpiritSufferingTurnsBeliefNationsCivilizationMachinesBetrayalMonstersGhostJustifyDogmaButtonsHuman SpiritDeliberateDilemmaAssertionObedientDeafnessEnds Justify The Means Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man
“The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.” HumansPhilosophyBodyLife IsHumanityHuman BeingsAnimalAcceptingMoralLife PhilosophyBecomingMachinesMaterialismInherentPerilConvenienceImplicationsDisadvantagesDisruptive Author:Aldous Huxley
“The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.” PhilosophyBodyChurchSinMachinesMedicineSensesAdvertisingHuman BodySomaParts Of The BodyFiesta Author:Eduardo Galeano
“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” MenPhilosophyInspirationActionChristianSpiritEvilGoalReligiousResultsGenerationsPersonalityDemandDiseaseDirectMachinesMethodDramaticReachingTragicButtonsShallowSymptomsHollowGlamourImpatientReligious PhilosophySalesmanshipGlorificationExternalitiesDynamic Personality Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.” PhilosophyPoliticalStruggleAdvantageEconomicsMachinesRewardsCastsLegislationLapGreat Business Author:Friedrich Naumann
“Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.” IfsNeedsTryingPhilosophyWholeCareLeftSocialAbilityClassWonderfulEconomicProductsReturnLetting GoHighestCapitalismMachinesSlaveTake CareGuidesSelfishnessAdamLeft Alone Author:Robert Heilbroner
“There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.” KnowsLoveHumansHeartArtStillsPhilosophyAbleLiteratureSecretProduceSpringMachinesHuman HeartGreat ArtLove And FriendshipGreat LiteratureGreat Philosophy Author:Bertrand Russell