Quotes About Classification

Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.

Some libraries have separate areas for fiction and nonfiction. Mrs. Surlaw didn't believe in that sort of thing. After all, who was she to decide what was true and what wasn't?

but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.

Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.

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Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

Once feeling would have been removed, you would have become unable to classify images as beautiful or ugly, pleasurable or painful, tasteful or vulgar, spiritual or earthy. If no feelings were available, you might still be trained, at great effort, to make aesthetic or moral classifications of objects or events. So might a robot, of course.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is that what I am?' At the time, I just cared about equality.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all—and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.

Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I

This classification is applied to the two Homeric epics: the Iliad is simple and based on suffering, the Odyssey is complex and based on character.

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Better in most contexts (such as the present one) once again to acquiesce to standard contemporary usage and classify fields like metaphysics, ethics, natural theology, philosophy of nature, etc. as branches of philosophy rather than of "science.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn't possess.

Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status

E]jusdem generis . . . says that if a series of more than two items ends with a catch-all term that is broader than the category into which the preceding items fall but which those items do not exhaust, the catch-all term is presumably intended to be no broader than that category.

Everything that suits to own self of others is POSITIVE and that which shows no benefits to own is NEGATIVE. Such is the classification of Positive and Negative words in the life of almost everyone.

The classification of the mind thinking can be done into a good and a bad, but not an imagination as it is always from the feeling of a soul-searching heart.

The reality is that there is no classification of leadership and nothing as such good or bad leader. A person is either a leader or a pretender. A pretender is seen often surrounded with many people-all stupid and sycophants.