“The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.”
"A Walk in the Desert Hills", page 44
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
Context: If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
“Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.
Human Nature and Social Theory (1969)
Context: The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period. This division is not very different from Marx’s concept of "human nature in general", to be distinguished from "human nature as modified in each historical period". The same distinction exists in Marx when he distinguishes between "constant" or "fixed" drives and "relative" drives. The constant drives "exist under all circumstances and … can be changed by social conditions only as far as form and direction are concerned". The relative drives "owe their origin only to a certain type of social organization".
Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. 118.
“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”
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Source: God and the New Physics (1983), Ch. 17: 'The physicist's conception of nature', p. 223
Preface to Atlanticus, Produktion und Konsum im Sozialstaat (Production and Consumption in the Social State or in the Welfare State; Stuttgart: Verlag J. H. W. Dietz Nachf, 1989), p. xiv.
