Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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