“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous being is free in the sense that a being severed from all others is free. To… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical grid above) brings our shared dependence into view. People may inhabit very different worlds even in the same… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“...an external reward can affect one's interpretation of one's own motivation, and interpretation that comes to be self-fulfilling. A similar effect may account for… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“...if we follow the traces of our own actions to their source, they intimate some understanding of the good life. This understanding may be… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over. I was… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“The truth about idiocy... is that it is at once an ethical and cognitive failure... The Greek idios means 'private,' and idiotes means a… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“The lover of excellence is prone to being drawn out of himself, erotically almost, in a way that the universalist egalitarian is not. The… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. My teammates started pointing because there was this uproar"… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“There is a classic psychology experiment that seems to confirm Brewer's point. Children who enjoy drawing were given marker pens and allowed to go… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“Stripped of the kind of judgments that are at the very heart of the idea of "credit", shot through with bad faith, [the mortgage… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
![“Stripped of the kind of judgments that are at the very heart of the idea of "credit", shot through with bad faith, [the mortgage broker's] work is now predicated on irresponsibility, rooted in the absence of community. Whatever lingering fiduciary consciousness he may have has become a liability…” quote by Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b01/matthew-b-crawford-26537_rest-of-life_stripped-of-the-kind-of-judgments-that-a_1991114.jpg)