Function Quotes

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

Form does not necessarily follow function

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.