Function Quotes

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The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision. — Katherine Sophie Dreier
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together… — J. C. R. Licklider
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to… — Cherie Currie
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something… — Mooji
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling;… — P D Ouspensky
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a… — David Collenette
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in… — Plutarch
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. — Erik Qualman
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. — Michel Foucault
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be… — Avicenna
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. — Alan Perlis
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a… — Ernest Starling
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence

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