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Top 30 Matthew B. Crawford Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Let me make myself useful.”

1. “Let me make myself useful.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The current educational regime is based on a certain view about what kind of knowledge is important: “knowing that,” as opposed to “knowing how.”

2. “The current educational regime is based on a certain view about what kind of knowledge is important: “knowing that,” as opposed to “knowing how.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Anaxagoras wrote, “It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.”

3. “Anaxagoras wrote, “It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on.”

4. “The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.”

5. “Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Things constitute commanding reality, devices procure disposable reality.”

6. “Things constitute commanding reality, devices procure disposable reality.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Spiritedness, then, may be allied with a spirit of inquiry, through a desire to be master of one’s own stuff. It is the prideful basis of self-reliance.”

7. “Spiritedness, then, may be allied with a spirit of inquiry, through a desire to be master of one’s own stuff. It is the prideful basis of self-reliance.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Architects face this threat, but builders don’t.”

8. “Architects face this threat, but builders don’t.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating “hyperpalatable” foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity.”

9. “The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating “hyperpalatable” foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.”

10. “Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Joy is the feeling of one’s powers increasing.”

11. “Joy is the feeling of one’s powers increasing.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for.”

12. “We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The sheer perversity of making a VW go fast attracts a different human type.”

13. “The sheer perversity of making a VW go fast attracts a different human type.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Craftsmanship entails learning to do one thing really well, while the ideal of the new economy is to be able to learn new things, celebrating potential rather than achievement.”

14. “Craftsmanship entails learning to do one thing really well, while the ideal of the new economy is to be able to learn new things, celebrating potential rather than achievement.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Many people are trying to recover a field of vision that is basically human in scale, and extricate themselves from dependence on the obscure forces of a global economy.”

16. “Many people are trying to recover a field of vision that is basically human in scale, and extricate themselves from dependence on the obscure forces of a global economy.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The musician’s power of expression is founded upon a prior obedience;.”

17. “The musician’s power of expression is founded upon a prior obedience;.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, what we really have is an attentional economy, if the term “economy” applies to what is scarce and therefore valuable.”

18. “Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, what we really have is an attentional economy, if the term “economy” applies to what is scarce and therefore valuable.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Psychologists have suggested that attention may be categorized by whether it is goal-driven or stimulus-driven, corresponding to whether it is in the service of one’s own will or not.”

19. “Psychologists have suggested that attention may be categorized by whether it is goal-driven or stimulus-driven, corresponding to whether it is in the service of one’s own will or not.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs.”

20. “It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.”

21. “Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “But of course we run into a problem: we are not competent to judge everything for ourselves. We know this; we feel it. We cannot look to custom or established authority, so we look around to see what everyone else thinks. The demand to be an individual makes us feel anxious, and the remedy for this, ironically enough, is conformity.”

22. “But of course we run into a problem: we are not competent to judge everything for ourselves. We know this; we feel it. We cannot look to custom or established authority, so we look around to see what everyone else thinks. The demand to be an individual makes us feel anxious, and the remedy for this, ironically enough, is conformity.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Our founding republican spirit of “No taxation without representation” and “Don’t tread on me” is laudable, but must be directed to the proper offshore entity. Libertarians are confused because, unlike King James I, Verizon doesn’t make a straightforward assertion of sovereignty. Instead, it wraps you up in the embrace of rational-looking bureaucratic irrationality.”

23. “Our founding republican spirit of “No taxation without representation” and “Don’t tread on me” is laudable, but must be directed to the proper offshore entity. Libertarians are confused because, unlike King James I, Verizon doesn’t make a straightforward assertion of sovereignty. Instead, it wraps you up in the embrace of rational-looking bureaucratic irrationality.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “In what circumstances does the human element remain indispensable, and why?”

24. “In what circumstances does the human element remain indispensable, and why?”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The ever more complete penetration of public spaces by attention-getting technologies exploits the orienting response in a way that preempts sociability, directing us away from one another and toward a manufactured reality, the content of which is determined from afar by private parties that have a material interest in doing so. There is no conspiracy here, it’s just the way things go.”

25. “The ever more complete penetration of public spaces by attention-getting technologies exploits the orienting response in a way that preempts sociability, directing us away from one another and toward a manufactured reality, the content of which is determined from afar by private parties that have a material interest in doing so. There is no conspiracy here, it’s just the way things go.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “To heed such advice would require a certain contrarian streak, as it entails rejecting a life course mapped out by others as obligatory and inevitable.”

26. “To heed such advice would require a certain contrarian streak, as it entails rejecting a life course mapped out by others as obligatory and inevitable.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “What is it that we really want for a young person when we give him or her vocational advice? The only creditable answer, it seems to me, is one that avoids utopianism while keeping an eye on the human good: work that engages the human capacities as fully as possible.”

27. “What is it that we really want for a young person when we give him or her vocational advice? The only creditable answer, it seems to me, is one that avoids utopianism while keeping an eye on the human good: work that engages the human capacities as fully as possible.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Centuries ago, the irritant was established cultural authorities that shackled the mind in “self-imposed immaturity,” as Kant said. But our emergence from immaturity seems to have stalled at an adolescent stage, like a hippie who hasn’t aged very well. The irritants that stand out now are the self-delusions that have sprouted up around a project of liberation that has gone to seed, ushering in a “culture of performance” that makes us depressed.”

28. “Centuries ago, the irritant was established cultural authorities that shackled the mind in “self-imposed immaturity,” as Kant said. But our emergence from immaturity seems to have stalled at an adolescent stage, like a hippie who hasn’t aged very well. The irritants that stand out now are the self-delusions that have sprouted up around a project of liberation that has gone to seed, ushering in a “culture of performance” that makes us depressed.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “Futurism is a genre of mythmaking that seeks to generate a feeling of inevitability around some desired outcome, a picture that is offered as though it were a prediction.”

29. “Futurism is a genre of mythmaking that seeks to generate a feeling of inevitability around some desired outcome, a picture that is offered as though it were a prediction.”

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Matthew B. Crawford Quote: “The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous being is free in the sense that a being severed from all others is free. To regard oneself this way is to betray the natural debts we owe to the world, and commit the moral error of ingratitude. For in fact we are basically dependent beings: one upon another, and each on a world that is of our making.”

30. “The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous being is free in the sense that a being severed from all others is free. To regard oneself this way is to betray the natural debts we owe to the world, and commit the moral error of ingratitude. For in fact we are basically dependent beings: one upon another, and each on a world that is of our making.”

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