Quotes About Definition

As if the species in every individual were on guard against letting himself go too far along the road of tolerance, intelligent doubt, sentimental vacillation. At some given point the callus, the sclerosis, the definition is born: black or white, radical or conservative, homo- or heterosexual, the San Lorenzo team or the Boca Juniors, meat or vegetables, business or poetry.

Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it?

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

It's a bizarre but widespread myth that only heroes have good qualities, and the only qualities heroes have are good; villains are, by definition, all bad. Bullshit.

the exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

This is who I am.", FADE by Kailin Gow

When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.

There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

Very great, in short, is the prerogative of constitutive instances; for they are of much use in the forming of definitions (especially particular definitions) and in the division and partition of natures; with regard to which it was not ill said by Plato, "That he is to be held as a god who knows well how to define and to divide.

modern thought has arrived at an impasse, unable to come to a consensus on what constitutes man and his specific dignity, and consequently unable to define the rights of man.

Weiss ist immer Weiss und Schwartz ist immer Schwartz:

the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

Must we be defined by our vulnerability? Must we be fearful? The moment we ask these questions, we are well on the way to intuiting that there is always an alternative…Whether we adopt the philosophy of precaution or embrace a more courageous risk-taking approach depends on how [we perceive] what it means to be a human.

fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological

I was asking about lust, wasn't I? I was fairly certain of it. But isn't love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

Whereas sympathy is by definition positive, empathy doesn't need to be, especially if the capacity to understand others is turned against them.

Complex numbers can be written in standard form In this form, they can be combined using the operations defined for real numbers, together with the definition of the imaginary unit i: . The conjugate of a complex number z is denoted . If , then