Quotes About Anthropomorphism

#1. I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#2. If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject is an anthropomorphism too.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#3. The being called God ... bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

Dylan Evans

#5. True scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work.

Bruce H. Lipton

#6. I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

A.S. Byatt

#7. Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Albert Einstein

#8. Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#9. At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.

Franz Kafka

#10. Philosophically literate anthropomorphism is exactly what one would expect of any worldview which affirms that human beings are made in the image of God.

(from The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers)

Eleanore Stump

#11. So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.

Michael Fox

#13. I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

Michael Light

#14. The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps.

Ondjaki

#15. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives a plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.

William Tyndale

#16. Sullivan, just pick it up."
"My way is more genteel."
"Your way is more tight ass."
"Your respect for me, Sentinel, is astounding."
"I'd respect you more if you took a bite of that dog."
"You don't respect me any."
"Like I said, I'd respect you more. More than none.

Chloe Neill

#17. The hippopotamus is said to have a tender heart by those who have eaten that delicacy baked, so a thick skin is not necessarily a reliable index to what is inside the man.

Eric Temple Bell

#18. OMG, I am so WTF over it, I'm LOL-ing

Stephani Hecht

#19. The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made

Robert C. Martin

#20. Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!

David Livermore

#21. Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

Lancelot Andrewes

#22. Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.

Nevada Barr

#23. But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

Caitlin Moran

#24. Lets build a happy little cloud.
Lets build some happy little trees.

Bob Ross

#25. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

Luther Burbank

#26. Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

Sere Prince Halverson

#27. Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

Nancy Mitford

#28. Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Mark Twain

#29. There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.

Felix Houphouet-Boigny

#31. I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Tillman