Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Happiness can't be made; it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I… — Carl Brashear Copy Share Image
It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
