"The self as master is born in the realization that nature can be commanded. Real mastery requires a means. The self d…"

"Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, f…"

"The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign…"

"No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegia…"

"The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live…"

"Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel’s dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our…"

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"

"Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite …"

"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increme…"

"The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on th…"