Definitions Quotes - Page 14

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.