Mechanistic Quotes

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“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?”
Jessica Riskin, The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Vladimir Lenin
“Der kluge Idealismus steht dem klugen Materialismus näher als der dumme Materialismus.”
Vladimir Lenin, Philosophical Notebooks

Mattias Desmet
“If one focuses too much on the superficial appearances of life and loses touch with the underlying principles and figures, life will increasingly be experienced as a meaningless chaos, just like Lorenz's waterwheel.”
Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism