#ourselves

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#ourselves #recreate #sufficient #weather #world

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art #emerge #know #only #ourselves

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#act #every #glimpses #heaven #ourselves

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#could #declare #discover #find #form

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make