Artificial Quotes

516 quotes by 440 authors

To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives… — Mahatma Gandhi
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. — Arthur C. Clarke
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. — Wallace Stevens
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are… — Marcel Proust
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. — Andy Warhol
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we… — Kate Atkinson
We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are… — Erich Maria Remarque
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and… — H.G. Wells
Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit. — Laurie Faria Stolarz
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited… — Flannery O'Connor
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. — Wallace Stevens
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural… — Charles Baudelaire
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin

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