Definitions Quotations | Page 7

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

My definition of evil is unfriendliness

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Home is the definition of God.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined. And I have had a ball doing it.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.