Quotes About Function

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

La estructura del espacio no está determinada hasta que no sea conocida la funcióng-nyu-v. También se puede decir que la estructura de un espacio tal está, por sí mismo, completamente indeterminada.

Según estas ideas, la función del cerebro, el sistema nervioso y los órganos sensoriales es principalmente eliminativa, no productiva.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a  new function of brain is established.

It is our mission to forestall our duties

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.

An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation.

A system just can't respond to short-term changes when it has long term delays. That's why a massive central-planning system, such as the Soviet Union or General Motors, necessarily functions poorly.