The seven blunders of the world: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics with no principles.
They will come, your people, Nature! A rejuvenated nation will also rejuvenate you.
Philosophers assume that facts generate ideas, and in a certain sense this is also true; but I find in the history of natural research that in order to understand a fact, one must already have certain ideas in one’s head, and that the eyes see nothing that has not been thought beforehand in the mind.
Innovations are scientific results packaged in a form ready to be adopted by users.
It is not the brain that defines a human being, but the totality of all organs. Consequently, it follows that cultural evolution can only be fulfilled if the entire organism is involved in this evolutionary process. (…) The organism is the subject of technology. The coming civilization is either a womb or a grave.
We can no longer live off nature, as it is sick in many parts. It needs help. We see the efforts to bring “life” into architecture as a task for the future.
