Disposition Quote by Leon Kass Download Open image “The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.” — Leon Kass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disposition Life Machinery
We live in a technocratic culture. We worship at the altar of technology. Our lives are increasingly shaped by the machinations of the techies.… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“The technical man must not be lost in his own technology; he must be able to appreciate life, and life is art, drama, music,… — Fazlur Khan Copy Share Image
Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems. — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use… — James Haskell Copy Share Image
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of… — Charles James Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image