Artifice Quotes

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As… — David Bowie
We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is… — George Bernard Shaw
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by… — Henri Desgrange
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is… — Wallace Stevens
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice… — William Butler Yeats
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether… — Alexander Hamilton
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will… — Alexander Hamilton
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It… — Fisher Ames
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of… — George Santayana
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you… — Martin Luther
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and… — William Bartram

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