Automaton Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second,… — Geraldine Brooks
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like… — Albert Einstein
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a… — John Grier Hibben
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an… — E E Cummings
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton. — James Cash Penney
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we… — Viktor E. Frankl
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do… — Walter Lippmann
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with… — William O. Douglas
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its wayâ€”the way of artâ€”for the sake of just… — Paul Celan
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
â€¦my Lolita remarked: â€œYou know, whatâ€™s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your ownâ€; and it struck me, as my automaton… — Vladimir Nabokov
Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..."… — Cassandra Clare
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the… — Erich Fromm
I like that stick of yours," he said. "It's a staff." Jem swung out to knock another automaton sideways. "Made by the Iron Sisters, only… — Cassandra Clare

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