“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.” — Mikhail Shchepkin Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader. — Hugh Skinner Copy Share Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.” — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Everything we do, we do as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“First, it must be admitted that certain forms of behaviour may be described as more ‘natural’ than other forms; for instance, going… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of… — Brian Leiter Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“That is the normal succession of things in this part of the world; you can see the various stages all over Scratch… — John Hanson Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Intuition must be taken seriously in the absence of substantial theoretical understanding, but once such theoretical understanding begins to take shape, prior… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God. — David Malet Armstrong Copy Share Image
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not… — Etienne Vermeersch Copy Share Image
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology… — L.-Z. Fang Copy Share Image
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson -… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
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