Artificiality Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. — John Dewey
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which… — Isamu Noguchi
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're… — Jacque Fresco
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction… — Robert A. Heinlein
I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things… — Gale Harold
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced… — Ernest Gruening
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… — Cyril Connolly
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn… — Neal A. Maxwell
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which… — L. Ron Hubbard
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the… — Richard Lederer
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and… — Will Self
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they… — Samuel R. Delany

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