“The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.”
Jacques Ellul book The Technological Society
The Technological Society (1954)
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
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American critic and writer 1904–1980Related quotes
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“Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1920s, Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
Context: I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Delenda Est (p. 192)
Time Patrol
“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 32 (p. 555)
