Constructs Quote by Samuel Florman Download Open image “... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.” — Samuel Florman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructs Design Engineering Helping Men
For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence. — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image