Modern man Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila Download Open image ““Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern man Technology
“Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization.” — Toba Beta 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
“Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.” — O.J. Rendchen Copy Share Image
“I am hardly a technophobe. But we will get the best of these technologies only if we don’t let them distract us from making… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It’s man’s intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself and in… — James Scott, Co-Founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“The process of man’s mind working with technology is what elevates us—” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it. — James May Copy Share Image
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud,… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the man of… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image