Artificial Quotes

516 quotes by 440 authors

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art. — Marianne Moore
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the… — Margaret Mead
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. — Robert Breault
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… — Wallace Stevens
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.… — Brooks Atkinson
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
Indifference creates an artificial peace. — Mason Cooley
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is… — Robert Jarvik
The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited.… — Robert Jarvik
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — Maria Edgeworth
Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another. — Nelson Mandela
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a… — William Irwin Thompson
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -… — Christopher McDougall
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below… — Barbara Tuchman
[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the… — William DeVries
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough… — Paul Nurse
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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