Definitions Quotes - Page 22

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition