When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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The wheel Anthropomorphism Human ingenuity Technological progress Innovation

Author

Guillaume Apollinaire

Source

Les Mamelles de Tirésias

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Play

Language

French

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

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The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Pessoa, Fernando (published as Ricardo Reis). "So esta liberdade nos concedem [The only freedom the gods grant us]." Odes. Edições Ática, 1952.

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If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

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Medium
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Time
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Another quote from 1917

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

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Source
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Medium
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Genre
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Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

Another quote originally in French

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish

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Michel Foucault
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Discipline and Punish
Language
French
Time
1975 1970s 20th century
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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.