The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the centre of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an
artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something
artificial.
View quotes by Albert CamusArtificial Intelligence isn't a patch on Natural Stupidity.
View quotes by AnonymousThe aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by
artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
View quotes by William FaulknerThe want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains
artificial and forced.
View quotes by André GideMerely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an
artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
View quotes by Emma GoldmanThe man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have
artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
View quotes by Henry MillerI do not think of the prison population in terms of an ideal number. We will not be constrained by some
artificial level.
View quotes by Ann WiddecombeAll things are
artificial, for nature is the art of God.
View quotes by Sir Thomas BrowneCalifornia is like an
artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
View quotes by Saul BellowLook, I have already said I am not going to put any
artificial limits on our ambitions this time around [on the election in 2005]
View quotes by Charles KennedyNatural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which
artificial flowers give us.
View quotes by John UpdikeProducing machines capable of
artificial thought was easy. Producing a machine capable of intelligence has proven elusive because there just isn't anything on which to model it.
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