To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to…

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered…

— Henry Beston

When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on…

— Wayne Muller

“And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. Black and portentous…

— William Shakespeare

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be…

— Richard Whately

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

— Adolf Hitler

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

— Joseph Addison

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably…

— Elon Musk

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

— Kristina Schroder

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a…

— Peter Thiel

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring…

— Marvin Olasky

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As…

— Larry Page