Artificial Quotes

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There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations. — Gloria Allred
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. — H.G. Wells
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons… — Michael J Cohen
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends… — Jean Baudrillard
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in… — Mahatma Gandhi
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name… — Horace
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share… — Hans Arp
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst… — Isaac D'Israeli
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde
You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. — Pablo Picasso
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration. — Dalai Lama
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine… — Walter Raleigh
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore,… — Oliver Goldsmith
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and… — Henri Bergson
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. — Paul Gauguin
Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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