Unnatural Quotes - Page 9

• Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life Is, Natural, Human Life

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• A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Envy, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

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• The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

  John Francis Daley

  Real, Light, Often Is

  "Exclusive: Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Talk HORRIBLE BOSSES, BURT WONDERSTONE, OF ALL THE THINGS, VACATION Reboot, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

  Andres Serrano

  Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal

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• Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

  Fred Melamed

  Running, Eight, Long

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• There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Gaps, Strive

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• When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, World, Truth Is

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Children, Book

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Peace, Heart

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• I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

  Luther Burbank

  Struggle, Race, Atheism

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• Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all, he finds his own highest honor upheld.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Honor, Doe

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• The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Race, Years

  Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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• Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, War, Passion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophical, People, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.267, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Focus, Shapes

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.

  Neil Postman

  Attitude, Order, Skills

  "The Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman, (Ch. 9 : Six Questions), 1982.

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• Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Done, Misery

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• I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

  Letta Mbulu

  People, Forever, Cracks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Attitude, Catholic, Church

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galeststski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

  Adam Levine

  Yoga, People, Hours

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• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Yield

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• One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

  Colin Farrell

  Rights, Judging, Opinion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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