Function Quotes

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The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. — Joseph Campbell
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities… — Julian Burnside
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to… — David Byrne
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough… — Hermann Weyl
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of… — H. L. Mencken
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add… — Eckhart Tolle
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect,… — Dalai Lama
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience. — Joseph Campbell
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to… — BrenÃ© Brown
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its… — Sigmund Freud
We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental… — John Yau
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. — Michael Novak
The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal. — Jaggi Vasudev
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. — Jaggi Vasudev
The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga. — Jaggi Vasudev
It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions. — Jaggi Vasudev
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering. — Jaggi Vasudev

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