Skip to content

Ancient Quote by Leon Kass

“There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world…” quote by Leon Kass — Download Open image

“There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Ancient Given Tension World

More by Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Image

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Image

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Image

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Image

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Image

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Image

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Image

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Image

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Image

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Image

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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.

Image

Explore all 52 Leon Kass quotes

More Ancient quotes

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

Image

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,…

Image

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

Karen Marie Moning

Image

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

Image

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

Image

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Henry David Thoreau

Image

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect…

Image

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

Image

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of…

Image

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient…

Image

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Edward P. Jones

Image

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and…

Image

Browse all 2,325 Ancient quotes