Function Quotes - Page 3

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

What is your major malfunction?

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Faith is a function of the heart.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.