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The goodness of money floats free of any particular evaluations that could engage our attention and energize our activity.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.
— Bryant McGill
A dainty rogue in porcelain
— George Meredith
Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.
— Matthew B. Crawford
The basic design intention guiding Mercedes in the last ten years seems to be that its cars should offer psychic blow jobs to the affluent.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Let me make myself useful.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Architects face this threat, but builders don't.
— Matthew B. Crawford
you can't hammer a nail over the Internet.
— Matthew B. Crawford
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
— Matthew Crawford
Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
— Aeschylus
We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for
— Matthew B. Crawford
the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.
— Matthew B. Crawford
I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.
— Carl Froch
Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Find manual work more engaging intellectually
— Matthew B. Crawford
The omelette tasted like flannel.
— James Blish
It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.
— Matthew Crawford
to a paradox in our experience of agency: to be master of your own stuff entails also being mastered by it.
— Matthew B. Crawford
The rise of "teamwork" has made it difficult to trace individual responsibility,
— Matthew B. Crawford
In what circumstances does the human element remain indispensable, and why?
— Matthew B. Crawford