Man’s collective mastery of nature– even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion– can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any mastery over the concrete, immediate conditions of their existence. The collective control allegedly conferred by science is an abstraction that has little resonance in everyday life. Christopher Lasch
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you...
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Unknown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Arthur C. Clarke
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
More Quotes By Christopher Lasch
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or...
Man’s collective mastery of nature– even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion– can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any...
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster.. . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
