Function Quotes

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Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to… — Ludwig von Mises
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and… — Julian Barnes
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or… — Rudolf Arnheim
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the… — Edward Thorndike
In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private. — William Holden
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued… — Ken Livingstone
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. — Rene Magritte
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. — Wassily Kandinsky
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... — Yves Klein
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me,… — Farley Mowat
These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an… — Steven Pressfield
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly… — John Thune
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has… — Rudolf Steiner
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural… — Antony Gormley
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain. — John Murphy
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence,… — Eric Maisel
One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with… — Peter Schmidt
To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. — Emily Dickinson

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