Naturalism Quotes
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To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.
— Robert B. Brandom
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
— Greg Graffin
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look ... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
— David Hockney
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.
— Tim Crane
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
— Ben Okri
When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.
— Geoffrey Rush
Open yourself to the natural and become a human again.
— Bryant McGill
The inner imaginary universe of the human primate is the battlefield of the ages
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
He has no theistic beliefs, but shares the poetic naturalism that the cosmos provokes in
— Richard Dawkins
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
— Lewis Thomas
Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.
— Mark Duplass
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.
— Julian Huxley
That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.
— William Pene Du Bois
The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.
— Flannery O'Connor
Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?
— Stephen Crane
I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.
— Robert Wilson
We do not have bodies - we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about "who we are" fuel our sense of separateness
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that consciousness is an illusion.
— Lewis N. Roe
Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.
— Abhijit Naskar
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
— Marcel Duchamp
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
— Irvin Kershner
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes ... it cuts its own throat.
— C.S. Lewis
To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.
— David Malet Armstrong
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
— David Bentley Hart
In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
— Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
— Gene Wilder
I believe religious indoctrination is child abuse.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
Scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.
— James Carroll
The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
— Arthur Balfour
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
— William Harvey
The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.
— Victor J. Stenger
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
— Sara Sheridan
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
— Robert J. Sawyer
It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.
— Michel Gondry
naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.
— David Bentley Hart
And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers.
— Avijeet Das
in my dreams
i need not to die everyday
to be free — Roseville Nidea
i need not to die everyday
to be free — Roseville Nidea
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist ... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.
— Sid Grossman
Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.
— Abhijit Naskar
The great workman of nature is time.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
— Philip Johnson
In our forests
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! — John Cage
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! — John Cage
Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check.
— Abhijit Naskar
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
— Nick Park
I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing
"If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing
Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside
— Thomas Nagel
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
— Robert J. Sawyer
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
— Gustave Flaubert
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
— Alvin Plantinga
Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
— Hideki Yukawa