Artificial Quotes

516 quotes by 440 authors

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit… — Ludwig von Mises
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to… — George Orwell
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. — Jamais Cascio
Souls don't have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions. — Brian Weiss
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support… — Ayn Rand
The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result… — Hilton Hotema
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard… — Charles Handy
The artificial is always innocent. — Frank O'Hara
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It… — Galileo Galilei
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get… — Charles Atlas
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. — Chuck Close
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. — Patricia Highsmith
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up… — Tom Robbins
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another… — Benjamin Cardozo
Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see… — Tony Dungy

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