Theodore Roszak Short Quotes

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Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban-industrialism.

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The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.

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We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.

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The epidemic psychosis of our time is the lie of believing we have no ethical obligation to our planetary home.

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Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.

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Science uses the senses but does not enjoy them; finally buries them under theory, abstraction, mathematical generalization

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The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.

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If a problem does not have a technical solution, it must not be a real problem. It is but an illusion... a figment born of some regressive cultural tendency.

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Science, in broad outline, can be divided into three parts: the study of the vast, the study of the tiny, and the study of life which... acts as audience to both the vast and the tiny.

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The alchemists of the ancient world had a teaching: "As above, so below." Four words that contain an entire cosmology.... a grand cosmic unity, a harmony resounding in the mind of God.

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