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«Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.»
Author: Gurdjieff | Keywords: functions, machine, self-knowledge
«What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?»
«Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.»
«We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us»
«The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.»
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
«We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.»
«The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.»
«When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.»
«The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.»

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