Zitat des Tages von Karel Capek:
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Art must not serve might.
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.