Categories Quotes

464 Categories quotes by 405 unique authors

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one… — Louis Pasteur
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear… — George Gaylord Simpson
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to… — Thomas Szasz
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,… — Rajneesh
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill… — Steve Ross
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that… — Zhuangzi
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a… — Suzanne Vega
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not… — Lauren Bacall
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if… — Minnie Bruce Pratt
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time… — Unknown Author
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create… — Sonia Sotomayor
The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the… — Al Gore
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class… — Jacques Ellul
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye

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