Artificialities Quotes & Sayings

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 have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are. — L. Ron Hubbard

To have may be taken from us, to have had, never. A man is thankless in the highest degree if, after losing something, he feels no obligation for having received it. — Seneca.

Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature. — H.S. Ede

I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time ... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. — Joe Montana

All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts. — Mark Twain

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology ... ... The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature. — Richard Louv

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win — Larry Hite

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

There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior - the best warrior - isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that? — Erin Hunter

I love to read theories without ever using them when working ... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. — Ernst Haas

Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life. — Lao-Tzu

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. — Anais Nin

The earth has a life of its own. — David Bailey

If you pray why worry, and if you worry, why pray. — Rita Rashad

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous. — Albert Einstein

Once upon a time, the American girl was a shining symbol of something fresh, spirited, and fully self-confident. Mark Twain said, "The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities. — Nancy Jo Sales

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 lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are. — Robert A. Heinlein