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Inspirational Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
- God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.
- Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
- The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.
- And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
- When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
- The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.
- For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the…
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