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Human Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…
- Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision…
- It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we…
- Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
- Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to…
- Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
- All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God…
- No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis