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My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests...responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments. (Jacques Delors)
We must define the political Europe that we want. We must plead for the federal approach. View quote
Jacques Delors
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems. View quote
Robert Benchley
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious,” "accurate,” and "natural” style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? View quote
Gao Xingjian
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer. View quote
Matthew Stover
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction. (Giuseppe Peano)
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define. View quote
Giuseppe Peano
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often. View quote
Emil Cioran
No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start. View quote
Hayley Williams
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality. View quote
Robert Graves
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it. View quote
Georges Bataille
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
I still define myself by the places that I've been. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? View quote
Dinah Craik
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. (Virginia Satir)
All struggles Are essentially Power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially Power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. View quote
Octavia Butler
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define - what is a bird. View quote
Emma Lazarus
I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare. View quote
Alice Bailey
It is difficult to define love. In the soul it is a passion to rule; in the mind it is sympathy; and in the body it is only a hidden and tactful desire to possess what we love after many mysteries. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld