“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.” IfsHas BeensFactsBodyFormLossCommonPoetOughtCostMusicianToolsStonesFundamentalsMythSuperiorsPainterSymbolsSubstanceSavagesEffectivenessPierce Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.” KnowsImportantLanguagePowerfulDangerWeaponsRedToolsStonesHatredFoundationImportant ThingsMost PowerfulWarningFlagsDiplomacy Author:Ani DiFranco
“I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!” FoundSecretToolsStonesRaisedAncientBlockPrimitiveAsiaPyramidsBuilderWeighingPeru Author:Edward Leedskalnin
“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other” PeopleIfsWayWantHumansHas BeensReasonPlayBeliefExistenceFireSpecialComfortOffersMajorsToolsStonesSpeciesWorthyDefenseInventionExtrasConsiderationGrantsPhenomenonCategoriesTechnologicalAmbiguousHuman Species Author:Daniel Dennett
“God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.” IfsWorldHumansCommonProduceApproachWorshipOrdinaryToolsStonesIsraelLiftsExesAltarsPaganismPaganIngenuityProfane Author:Max Anders
“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!” IfsFeelsI CanAgeWantedUniverseEnergyPolicyExampleToolsStonesPhotographStudiosTreasureBunchCollectionsFragmentsPotteryDebrisStone AgeNational Treasure Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.” Has BeensFacesFallFoundGreaterFailingLessonsAchievementToolsStonesNot AfraidNew ThingsStepping Stones Author:Idara Victor
“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.” Has BeensSelfDoneCasesWrittenSeeingToolsStonesSpeciesFeedbackInnateLoopsWritten Word Author:Jason Silva
“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.” HumansHas BeensReligionFireMajorsToolsStonesSpeciesAtheistInventionTechnologicalAmbiguousHuman Species Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansLongMomentsHandsEarthSpiritualLawLyingHuman BeingsGrowingFeetOne DayDiscoveryToolsStonesAccountsBreathsInventionClarityBrokeHuman MindAmazedCrystalsSparklingRegularityMoments Of Clarity Author:M. C. Escher