Quotes About Structure

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Naming a pattern immediately

Compared with the uniform frightfulness of the mother dragon, the father dragon is a culturally stratified structure. From this angle also she is nature, he is culture. The Terrible Male, like the Terrible Female

The two interpretations are mutually complementary. The structural—objective—interpretation seeks to embrace the whole span of the structure represented by the person of Faust, and then combine it with the genetic interpretation which recognizes that the Faust figure stands for the totality of Goethe's psychic situation, both conscious and unconscious, and for the whole history of his development.

As society, we haven't quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn't just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.

I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid guidelines and precise limits. That's how I begin to think. If I were told that I could create anything in any medium, using any amount of space and any amount of time, I'd stand in a field and scream.

Conservatives and portrayed as members of a conspiratorial power structure.

what looks like chaos is often self-organised in an intricate and invisible way.

He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

A place for everything, everything in its place".

Psychotropic drugs have also been organized according to structure (e.g., tricyclic), mechanism (e.g., monoamine, oxidase inhibitor [MAOI]), history (first generation, traditional), uniqueness (e.g., atypical), or indication (e.g., antidepressant). A further problem is that many drugs used to treat medical and neurological conditions are routinely used to treat psychiatric disorders.

A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Why is geometry often described as ""cold" and ""dry?" One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.