“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The future's unfolding Swaths of possibilities Rapids of change With cliffs of discovery.” — Sandy Moonias Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not… — Etienne Vermeersch Copy Share Image
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God. — David Malet Armstrong Copy Share Image
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“ Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies,… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.” — Mikhail Shchepkin Copy Share Image
“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image