Artifacts Quotes

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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

I am also really into religious artifacts.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

History is a madman's museum.