“For humans, tools point to the necessity of moral inquiry. Because nature makes only ambiguous prescriptions for us, we are compelled to ask, what is good? If you give a young boy a hammer for the first time and watch… — 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)