Systematized Quotes

#1. Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It's packaged. We don't live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Alan Joshua

#2. Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

Ibn Khaldun

#3. The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

Glenn Gould

#4. ... Lyotard suggests that while discourse operates as a system of representation which defines meanings according to their relation to other concepts in that system, figure is the realm of the singular, of that which refuses to, or simply cannot, be captured and systematized by the concept.

Nicholas Gane

#5. The rise of the antiwar and civil rights movements, along with the emergence of radical groups such as the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican independence movement, and the American Indian movement, saw a return to systematized abuse within the prison system.

Chris Hedges

#6. To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

Daniel D. Palmer

#7. And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon

#9. Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

S.I. Hayakawa

#10. Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.

Eric Kandel

#11. You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

Afrika Bambaataa

#12. It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Bernhard Langer

#13. A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.

Jodi Picoult

#14. It was a hound of some sort, black and disproportionately long-bodied, with lets so stumpy that they appeared to have been amputated. With large, liquid eyes and a sturdy long tail in constant motion, it resembled nothing so much as and exceedingly amiable sausage.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Bryant H. McGill

#17. If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

Kobo Abe

#18. Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Moliere

#19. I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center of the universe, and, if they are to sustain themselves, it is vitally important for them to be awakened to how closely they are linked with the rest of nature.

Wynn Bullock