Finals Quote by Charles Fort

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

— Seamus Heaney

The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.

— Thaddeus Golas

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

— David Bohm

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

— Eliphas Levi

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition…

— Jim James

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

— Bram Stoker