Promethean Quotes
8 quotes by 6 authors
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
— Charles Lamb
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To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things…
— Gerald Holton
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The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain…
— William Shakespeare
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I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know…
— William Shakespeare
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The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring…
— Jeremy Rifkin
Who Wrote These Promethean Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 8 Promethean Quotes as follows: