Quotes About Function

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth without visible function is much more intolerable because nobody can understand why it should be tolerated. Antisemitism reached its climax when Jews had similarly lost their public functions and their influence, and were left with nothing but their wealth.

What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.

Persecution of powerless or power-losing groups may not be a very pleasant spectacle, but it does not spring from human meanness alone. What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use. Even

In his] mind, there was no contradiction between I will jump into my grave laughing, appropriate for the end of the war, and I shall gladly hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth, which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same function of giving him a lift.

Sólo se puede confiar en las palabras si uno está seguro de que su función es revelar y no ocultar.

neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth without visible function is much more intolerable because nobody can understand why it should be tolerated.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

There's this song I love," Lex said. "The lyric says, 'Your heart is like a parachute.' Do you know why?" "I think the line is about a mind being like a parachute—it only functions when it's open." "No, I know that line. This one is a better, 'Your heart is like a parachute—it only opens when you fall.' " He smiled. "Good, right?" "I guess." "We

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.

Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.

Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die alles andere eher als unheimlich sind.

Las preguntas más importantes que debemos hacernos a la hora de elegir y valorar un tipo son: ¿se ajusta a la función que se le ha asignado? ¿Transmite el mensaje? Y ¿añade belleza a este mundo?

People can't function without forgiveness. It's why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

Let's go. I have a party to throw." And someone to throw it at.