1960s, Understanding Media (1964)
Source: The mechanization of the world picture, 1961, p. 499
“This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.”
If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)
“Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“Knowledge as function, mechanical function, is necessary.”
"Second Discussion in San Diego (18 February 1974) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=1102&chid=806&w=, p. 27; J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. SD74CA2
1970s, A Wholly Different Way of Living (1970)
Context: Knowledge is necessary to act in the sense of my going home from here to the place I live; I must have knowledge for this; I must have knowledge to speak English; I must have knowledge to write a letter and so on. Knowledge as function, mechanical function, is necessary. Now if I use that knowledge in my relationship with you, another human being, I am bringing about a barrier, a division between you and me, namely the observer. That is, knowledge, in relationship, in human relationship, is destructive. That is knowledge which is the tradition, the memory, the image, which the mind has built about you, that knowledge is separative and therefore creates conflict in our relationship.
Preface (8 May 1686)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Context: The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic: and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all; for the description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn; for it requires that the learner should first be taught to describe these accurately, before he enters upon geometry; then it shows how by these operations problems may be solved.
“Iron and heat are… the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts.”
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
Source: The Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904, p. 306
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 86
“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
Source: Technics and Civilization (1934), Ch. 6, sct. 11
