Why should it not be the whole function of a word to…

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

— Marquis de Sade

“Roses denote grace.”

— Luis Alberto Urrea

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that…

— Michel Foucault

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I…

— Edward Snowden

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it…

— Laura Regan

[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left…

— Abul A'la Maududi

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

— Ferran Adria

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap