Mechanistic Quotes

“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

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

“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