300 Quotes About Definition

Alec caught him as he began to slide down the wall. "Jace—""I'm all right," Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. "I can stand.""It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of 'standing.' ""It's leaning," Jace told him. "Leaning comes right before standing.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).

COOL·NESS [KOOL-NIS] -nounCATCHING your mom gazing at the crazy crowd like she finally gets itWATCHING your dad head-banging like he’s Finn’s twin brotherLEARNING that your new friends Tash and Kallie are a thousand times more complicated than you realized, and loving them for itFEELING every one of your boyfriend’s pounding drumbeats, and thinking it’s the most romantic music ever writtenREALIZING you’re completely unique . . . even in a crowd

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.