Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.
Karl JaspersTag: science superstition modern-age
Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.
Alain de BottonTag: wealth blessings possibilities dissatisfaction modern-age
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
Herman MelvilleTag: madness sanity allegory efficiency modernity ends means modern-age instrumental-rationality
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