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Defined Quotes (page 9)

Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death. Jean Toomer
Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace Terry Goodkind
Doug Coupland quote: "What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a..."
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. Doug Coupland
[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher... Plato
Karen Horney quote: "Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning."
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. Karen Horney
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly? but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree. Miguel de Unamuno
William James quote: "We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it."
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it. William James
Existence is beyond the power of words. To define: Terms may be used. But are none of them absolute. In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words, Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately. Sees to the core of life. Or passionately. Sees the surface, The core and the surface. Are essentially the same, Words making them seem different. Only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: From wonder into wonder. Existence opens. Lao Tzu
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy. Neal Stephenson
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves. Alain de Botton
Russell Brand quote: "If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you fro life;..."
If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you fro life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child. Russell Brand
Albert Einstein quote: "If I were given one hour to save the world, I would spend 59..."
If I were given one hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it. Albert Einstein
Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before. Agatha Christie
Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't... Philip K. Dick
Jenny Holzer quote: "With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define..."
With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien. Jenny Holzer

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