Quotes About Definition

SF's NO GOOD! They bellow 'til we're deaf But =this= is good Well, then, it's not SF!

I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

The purest definition of "religious" is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

A noun is a self-defeating wall, an adjective is a tenacious window.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

It is debatable whether it is better to provide people with universal basic income (the capitalist paradise) or universal basic services (the communist paradise). Both options have advantages and drawbacks. But no matter which paradise you choose, the real problem is in defining what "universal" and "basic" actually mean.

From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition natural

truth" is defined by the top results of the Google search.

Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.

A cultura tende a argumentar que proíbe apenas o que não é natural. Mas, de uma perspectiva biológica, não existe nada que não seja natural. Tudo o que é possível é, por definição, também natural. Um comportamento verdadeiramente não natural, que vá contra as leis da natureza, simplesmente não teria como existir e, portanto, não necessitaria de proibição.

If something exists—it is by definition natural.

Lo que distinguía a los nazis de otras sectas humanistas era una definición distinta de «humanidad», que estaba profundamente influida por la teoría de la evolución. En contraste con otros humanistas, los nazis creían que la humanidad no es algo universal y eterno, sino una especie mutable que puede evolucionar o degenerar. El hombre puede evolucionar hacia el superhombre o degenerar en un subhumano.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature."

There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it."

Words are never "only words"; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.