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Men have
defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist
arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are
with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male
system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of
men to name.
-- Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American Feminist
Critic
By speaking,
by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces
us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them.
Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist,
Philosopher
The human mind
is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other
that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to
pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour
compressed into a thimble.
-- Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist,
Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
It is the
business of thought to define things, to find the
boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of
definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.
Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an
object, or in its essential character, has no artistic
sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he
feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
-- Vance Palmer
1885-1959, Australian Author,
Poet
In the animal
kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom,
define or be defined.
-- Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist
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