Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought… — Albert Einstein
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. — Lord Chesterfield
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. — J. Philippe Rushton
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready… — Julie Ann Dawson
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are… — Frederic Bastiat
Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon â€“ developing out of… — Wassily Kandinsky
There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him… — Hugh Nibley
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal… — James Madison
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes. — Rahul Gandhi
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one… — Amy Heckerling
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr.
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince.… — Roy Blount, Jr.
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,… — Jean Baudrillard

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