Natural Quotes - Page 36

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

Even in the early '90s, I was already starting to mix professional actors with non-actors. I always enjoyed working with non-professionals, because their performances are very natural and unaffected.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.

A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Despair is a natural emotion.

Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

A real naturalistic approach, I would claim, should take the reality of mental representation as a natural fact. A lot can be said about this fact, but there is no need to say it all in terms of necessary and/or sufficient conditions which are stated in non-intentional terms. The idea that naturalism might require that all the truths should be stated in a particular kind of vocabulary now strikes me as a very peculiar one.

I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what you're not supposed to do in baking. I'm not a good baker.

A government of our own is our natural right

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical.

The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.