Promethean Quotes

8 quotes by 6 authors

• 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
• A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Promethean Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin
• 2 Promethean Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 1 Promethean Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 Promethean Quote by Gerald Holton
• 1 Promethean Quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• 1 Promethean Quote by John Boyle O'Reilly