Top 24 Ellul Technique Quotes
#1. I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of all
And I can't stop feeling sorry for myself
Fall Out Boy
#2. Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Livy
#3. Ice princess? Hardly. She was the opposite of cold. Christ, just the sight of her made Matty want to speak in fucking verse like he was Shakespeare incarnate. Genna
J.M. Darhower
#4. As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.
Andrew Sean Greer
#5. No technique is possible when men are free ... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.
Jacques Ellul
#6. Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
Elena Ferrante
#7. Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.
Jacques Ellul
#8. Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
Novalis
#9. I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
Bear Grylls
#10. What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life.
Jacques Ellul
#11. Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you."
"I don't wonder why they talk," I said "I wonder what they say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#13. The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.
Jacques Ellul
#14. Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
Jacques Ellul
#15. Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.
Uesugi Kenshin
#16. When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.
Simon Mainwaring
#17. True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!
Jacques Ellul
#18. Every once in a while, her temper flashes. It's like she's exhausted from beating down her demons.
Emery Lord
#19. Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science ... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time
Jacques Ellul
#20. Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!
Mark W. Boyer
#21. I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#22. The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
Jacques Ellul
#23. Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
Jacques Ellul
#24. It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.
Chris Hadfield
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