Definitions Quotes - Page 6

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.