It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image