Quotation Explorer - 'Extension'

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. - Jonathan Franzen
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. - Friedrich Nietzsche
A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another person's will.
To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him. - Haruki Murakami
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable! - Stefan Molyneux
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories. - Susan Sontag
Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls. - Julie Lessman
New research is lending texture and credence to what generations of storytellers have known in their bones that books, poems, movies, and real-life stories can affect the way we think and even, by extension, the way we act ["The Power of Story," Aeon, January 12, 2015]. - Elizabeth Svoboda
Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. - Harold L. Senkbeil
…the gavel became an extension of his arm and he used it to bludgeon the court into submission. - William Deihl
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. - George Santayana
The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace. - Jiulio Consiglio
God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love. - Criss Jami
They say I don’t exist. They say I am an extension, an indulgence, imagination of a schizophrenic person. - Faiz Shaikh
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge. - Democritus
Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God. - Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. - Ambrose Bierce
Books are an extension of our imagination - Danny Saunders
Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Calvin Trillin
Dreams are an extension of our inner child. - Fan T. C.