“As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.”
“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together”
“The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.”
“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.”
“[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.”