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Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
English (Source)
If we believe that the machine degrades man, we believe it because perhaps we do not have enough perspective to judge such rapid transformations as we have gone through. What is the two hundred year history of the machine compared to the two thousand year history of man! Actually, we have not yet settled in this electrified landscape, in this new house, which has not yet been completely built. Everything around us changed rapidly: human relationships, job opportunities, habits. In fact, our psychology was fundamentally shaken. The concept of departure, absence, distance, return, even if the words have not changed, no longer covers the old content. To grasp today's world, we use language made for yesterday's world. And it seems: the life of the past suits our nature better, just because it suits our language better.