Quotes About Definition

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. Look! we're saying. WE'RE normal! THIS is the average! We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

We see ourselves as non-conformists but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look," were saying, "we're normal. This is the average." We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

Look! We're saying. We're normal! This is the average! We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

So what was work? Tasks we performed for compensation in the service of an employer, be it an individual or a corporate entity. And yes, it was as exciting as it sounds. We didn't want to work. In fact, that's about as good a definition of work as you could have: that which we didn't want to do, but had to if we didn't want to eat dirt.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?

If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence.

Esa no era la persona que él creía ser, o la que habría elegido ser si hubiera tenido la libertad de elegir, pero había algo reconfortante y liberador en ser una persona real y definida, y no una colección de personas potenciales y contradictorias.

para mí, un sinónimo de salud mental y podría definirse

Cuando, en Ginebra o Zurich, la fortuna Quiso que yo también fuera poeta, Me impuse, como todos, la secreta Obligación de definir la luna. Pensaba que el poeta es aquel hombre Que, como el rojo Adán del paraíso, Impone a cada cosa su preciso Y no verdadero y no sabido nombre.

My definition of mythology is other people's religion, which suggests that ours must be something else. My definition of religion, then, is misunderstood mythology — and the misunderstanding consists in mistaking the symbol for the reference. So all the historic events that are so important to us in our tradition should not be important to us in any way except as symbols of power within ourselves.

You changed the definition of a myth from the search for meaning to the experience of meaning. CAMPBELL: Experience of life.

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.

Never has been a LONG hortatory poem', Pound advised John Hargrave, the leader of the Green Shirts, a militant wing of Social Credit: 'Epic…is not incitement to IMMEDIATE act/ you tell the tale to direct the auditor toward admiration of certain nobilities, courage etc.' Or, putting it another way, this time to Basil Bunting as a fellow poet, 'The poet's job is to define and yet again define till the detail of surface is in accord with the root in justice.

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.

it is not really in most vendors' interest for the standards definition process to ever stop.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

I'm still struggling to accept that Pluto may not be a planet.

Jun Do was thinking about all the popular definitions of love, that it was a pair of bare hands clasping an ember to keep it alive, that it was a pearl that shines forever, even in the belly of the eel that eats the oyster, that love was a bear that feeds you honey from its claws.