"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to……" — Wallace Stevens
"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
More Artifice Quotes
- The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard
- I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity… — David Bowie
- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science… — George Bernard Shaw
- Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is… — Sun Tzu
- There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune… — Sun Tzu
- Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason
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- The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has… — Eugene Wigner
- When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style… — Bill Roorbach
- Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and… — William Butler Yeats
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one… — Alexander Hamilton
- An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head… — Alexander Hamilton