The shortest definition of religion: interruption.
Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices. . . Those definitions. . . are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.
To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.
Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.
My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. " "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. " Sarissa said. "It is today.
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon