Defined Quotes
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.
