150 Quotes About Instruments

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?