Artificial Quotes · Page 25

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

— Yann Martel

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and…

— Jean Baudrillard

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to…

— Horace

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

— Gertrude Stein

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of…

— Kevin Carson

The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion…

— Tim Green

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s…

— Tom Stoppard

To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that…

— Carson McCullers

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract…

— Srikumar Rao

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because…

— James Balog

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

— Zhuangzi

Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for…

— Anandamayi Ma

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of…

— Washington Irving

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that…

— Albert Camus

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment…

— Adam Gopnik

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is…

— Alexander Schmemann

It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food,…

— Prince Charles

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits…

— Henry Miller

Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

— Ajit Pai

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they…

— Hermann Hesse

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

— Hari Sreenivasan

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that…

— Tariq Ramadan