Theodore Roszak quotes - page 2

Ideology is not absent in the technocracy... it is simply invisible, having blended into the supposedly indisputable truth of the scientific world view. ...The most effective ideologies are always those that are congruent with the limits of consciousness, for then they work subliminally. (Theodore Roszak)
Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"-those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females-is not yet entirely welcome. View quote
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It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything. View quote
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Without apoptosis, life would not be possible. View quote
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In four centuries of taking wealth and comfort from the body of the Earth, modern science has not troubled to produce a single rite or ritual, not even a minor prayer, that asks pardon or gives thanks. View quote
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The final stage of life... offers us the opportunity to detach from competitive, high-consumption priorities... At that point, life itself-the opportunity it offers for growth, for intellectual adventure, for the simple joys of love and companionship, for working out our salvation-comes to be seen as our highest value. ...That is what I have always assumed it means to be countercultural. View quote
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If we could assume the view of nonhuman nature, what passes for sane behavior in our social affairs might seem madness. View quote
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It tells us the world is... deserving of reverence. View quote
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Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes. View quote
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The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. ...Cells ...need to be "encouraged" to live. View quote
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Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality. (Theodore Roszak)
It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. View quote
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Boyle was among the first who recognized that the withdrawal of sympathy licenses conduct that would not be permissible within an animistic vision of nature. ...The vision that he and his scientific colleagues were creating was fast becoming a mathematical abstraction lacking color, odor, texture, and personality. ...The task of the natural philosopher, we are told, is to "probe," "penetrate," and "pierce" nature in all her "mysterious," secret," and "intimate recesses." View quote
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Because girls are raised to specialize in a certain set of human characteristics, would they not, then, bring to science a different sensibility? Does that sensibility have the right to be represented in science-or, for that matter, in business, politics, law, or medicine? View quote
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All the while, steadily and without fanfare and as invincibly as all things blossom, ripen, and mature, more people were living longer. And as they did so, they were creating a possibility not even the most far-sighted futurist had anticipated. View quote
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Some Calvinist divines identified an "idol" as anything "feigned in the mind by imagination." There is a haunting similarity between such teachings and Galileo's bold attack upon what he called "secondary qualities" in nature. View quote
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It is characteristic of the technocracy to render itself invisible. Its assumptions about reality and its values become as unobtrusively pervasive as the air we breathe.... the technocracy increases and consolidates its power... following the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity.... the technocracy assumes a position similar to that of the purely neutral umpire in an athletic contest.... we tend to ignore the man... Yet... he alone sets the limits and goals of the competition and judges the contenders. View quote
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The elder culture that is being improvised all around us day by day... promises to be the road toward a saner, more compassionate, more sustainable world-altogether, a more important turning point than ever presented itself in the 1960s... This, at last, is what the dissenting idealism of the 1960s was, in its highest and brightest expression, all about: a transformation of values that may finally reveal the goal of industrialization... In raising that possibility I cling to one hope. They grew up... reveling in their willingness to search beyond the limits of convention. ...What Boomers left undone in their youth, they will return to take up in their maturity... we have won years back from death. That gives us the grand project of using those extra years to build a culture that is morally remarkable. View quote
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