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“The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”

People Way Real Evil Attitude Technology Objects Produce Lonely Tendencies Objectivity

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.”

World Past Suffering Doubt Objects Karma Tendencies No Doubt Relative Innate

Author:Sarada Devi

“Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).”

Has Beens Facts Knowing Objects Moved Impression Tendencies Transformed

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in the maze of materials ... being studied, and to correlate the material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency towards intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects one studies, a live rapport with them, so to speak, which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations.”

Two Hands Speak Understanding Study Objects Materials Stress Relation Mathematics Tendencies Logical Concrete Inherent Abstraction Intuitive Systematic Orderly Mazes Rapport

Author:David Hilbert

“...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.”

Needs Certain Support Objects Emotional Materials Crowds Tendencies Entrepreneurship Emotional Needs

Author:Graham Hill

“This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.”

Path Objects Reflection Instinct Tendencies Unconscious Taboo Neurosis

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.”

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.”

Humans Quality Objects Tendencies Human Qualities Inanimate Objects

Author:Matthea Harvey