Jacques Ellul Quotes about Reality

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True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!

Jacques Ellul

Reality, Choices, Individuality

"The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 139, 1964.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

Jacques Ellul

Mean, Reality, Civilization

Jacques Ellul (2016). “Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers