Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”
As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a
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Jacques Maritain
(1882–1973) French philosopher
Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 77.
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 13
Context: The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships — i. e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.
“There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.”
Bernard Baruch
(1870–1965) American businessman
Speech (30 April 1954)
Laozi
(-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Jacques Ellul
(1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 251
Context: Man himself is exalted, and paradoxical though it may seem to be, this means the crushing of man. Man's enslavement is the reverse side of the glory, value, and importance that are ascribed to him. The more a society magnifies human greatness, the more one will see men alienated, enslaved, imprisoned, and tortured, in it. Humanism prepares the ground for the anti-human. We do not say that this is an intellectual paradox. All one need do is read history. Men have never been so oppressed as in societies which set man at the pinnacle of values and exalt his greatness or make him the measure of all things. For in such societies freedom is detached from its purpose, which is, we affirm, the glory of God.
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time