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Quotes About Systematization

Unlike the modern ideal of systematization in definition, these people celebrated the fact that, as Meister Eckhart once claimed, the unnameable is omni-nameable. Evidently such conflicts were not judged to be problematic but were accepted. Indeed, such fissures help to prevent us from forming an idolatrous image of God, ensuring that none of us can legitimately claim to understand God as God really is.
~ Peter Rollins
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
~ Epifanio de los Santos
there are two honest reasons so many people hate the thought of the functions they perform being systematized: Either they're too inflexible to learn a new way of doing things, or they're scared to death of the accountability that systematization will bring.
~ Jason Jennings
Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The fifty-six minor arcana of the Tarot are, therefore, simply a development from the last Major Arcanum of the Tarot, "The World", developed Cabbalistically-rigorously and mathematically- where sytematisation is pushed so far that one asks oneself involuntarily if it is not a matter of rationalistic performance, pure and simple.
~ Robert Powell
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~ Edmund Wilson
She arranged her own books
~ John Moss
Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity -- these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition.
~ John Taylor Gatto
It is because they are alive, potent to revive themselves, and capable of an ever-renewed, unpredictable yet self-consistent effectiveness in the range of human destiny, that the images of folklore and myth defy every attempt we make at systematization. They are not corpselike, but implike.
~ Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Science is organized knowledge.
~ Herbert Spencer
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
~ A. A. Milne
Kasandra took charge of things. She was the most organized person Johnny knew. In fact she was so organized that she had too much organization for one person, and it overflowed in every direction.
~ Terry Pratchett
RULE 3. SET FORTH THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BOOK, AND SHOW HOW THESE ARE ORGANIZED INTO A WHOLE, BY BEING ORDERED TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.
~ Kathleen Norris
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.
~ Nick Hornby
Science is organized knowledge.
~ Herbert Spencer
The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
~ Ronald Graham
The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory.
~ Murray N. Rothbard