Function Quotes
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.
When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.
I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.
It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.