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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

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks,
who cannot speak to birds or rocks. — Gary Snyder

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

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel — Julian Barnes

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

Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural. — Bryant McGill

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature! — Steven Magee

in my dreams
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

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

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature. — Abhijit Naskar

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"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

Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

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