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> Is man a sort of novelist of himself who conceives the fanciful figure of a personage with its unreal occupations and then, for the sake of converting it into reality, does all the things he does—and becomes an engineer?
📚 from "Man the Technician", Jose Ortega y Gasset
#technology #engineer
> Because man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extra-natural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.
Free band name: the Ontological Centaurs.
@npd who'se quote is that? Is it yours? It's pretty good things.
@plesuvius no, not mine! It's from the book I've been reading: "Man the Technician", Jose Ortega y Gasset
See previous toot in the thread for another quote and citation.