450 Quotes About Definitions

No escape from patterns and systems, no exits. Nothing, and no one, resides outside a system; that’s the way it is. Nothing outside the inside, the inside is also outside, etc.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love.

...you have to understand who you are talking to and whether or not they are using the word in any proper context of its definition. Whether this is its primary literal meaning or any of the metaphorical constructs that we humans are fond of using.

Words are wonderfully elastic. They can be mispronounced, misspelled, misused or mistranslated. Even the most precise technical term can be stretched into a verb or adjective, slang or idiom, stretched all the way around until it finds itself facing itself, a mirror image, the exact opposite of itself. Mark my words, it can.

Before 1802, cirrus, cumulus, and altostratus clouds hadn’t been given names. Untitled before 1802, the shapes were present in the sky, ethereal or ephemeral, presumably since the big bang, but un-designated, until they needed to be. Why then?The world hasn’t been fully seen, until it is named.

All definitions confine the defined, to themselves.

I don't make monsters.Definitions make monsters.You make definitions.

Are you a journey to a destination?Or merely an unsolved equation?Are you a fleeting dream that will end?Or a lost traveller's friend?Are you a complicated science or the most divine piece of art?Or an eloquent letter written in praise of God?Are you a test? Are you a lesson?Or are you time itself in a physical expression?Oh Life! You may not be deducibleBut I swear to God you're beautiful

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.