Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The discussion of the whole problem of technology ... has been strangely led astray through an all-too-exclusive concentration upo...n the service or disservice the machines render to men. The assumption here is that every tool and implement is primarily designed to make human life easier and human labor less painful.... But ... homo faber, the toolmaker, invented tools and equipment in order to erect a world, not ... to help the human life process. The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary, they and the automatic motion of their processes have begun to rule and even destroy world and things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect,... With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this be fled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,... Until the lengthening wings break into fireLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;... But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids o...f democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age;... And these thy sacred virtues must protect Against the dark and Time's consuming rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »