Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express… — Horace Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation. — Desson Thomson Copy Share Image
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. When shaping your own, you may… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like. — Regina King Copy Share Image
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can… — John Constable Copy Share Image
What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
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