D Quotes
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“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
Source: Beloved
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Intellectual: One who knows no craft.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Patience: A support for the disappointed.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Poverty: The result of marriage.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?”
“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”
“Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.”
“Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.”
Source: LANGUAGE IN ACTION
“Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use”
Source: Realism and the Aim of Science: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“Definitivamente, el amor es la llama que enciende nuestros corazones.”
Source: Amor en Llamas: El amor es la llama que enciende nuestros corazones
“Definitivamente no hay encuentro sexual menos satisfactorio que aquel que se da escudado bajo el pretexto de la venganza.”
Source: Los pecados de Victoria
“Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.”
“Definiţia durerii poate fi sistematizată astfel:
1. Prin ea se exteriorizează o judecată, în care s-a acumulat experienţa; 2. specificul ei este un şoc în sistemul nervos, care provoacă un dezechilibru; 3. este ea însăşi o reacţie, nu este cauza unei alte reacţii.
1. «În sine nu există durere. Nu rana este cea care doare; experienţa cu privire la consecinţele nefaste pe care le poate avea o rană» provoacă durerea. Cu alte cuvinte, obişnuinţa, prin care am învăţat să percepem durerea, este cea care judecă. Rana este secundară, exerciţiul durerii este cel care îşi spune cuvântul. Analiza lui Nietzsche este inventivă: mai degrabă comportamentul nostru (prin habitudini, dezvoltate din experienţă) transmite senzaţia de durere (nu rana efectivă). Ar fi interesant de investigat cum am reacţiona efectiv la durere, dacă obişnuinţa şi comportamentul nu ne-ar dicta că trebuie să plângem, să ne contorsionăm, să tremurăm atunci când ne-am lovit.
2. «Specificul autentic al durerii este întotdeauna îndelunga cutremurare, vibraţia ulterioară – determinată de un şoc înspăimântător. [...] De fapt nu suferim datorită cauzei durerii (a unei leziuni oarecare, de pildă), ci datorită dezechilibrului
îndelungat ce apare ca urmare a acelui şoc.» Din acest fragment, putem izola elementul ştiinţific de cel biografic, deşi ele sunt complementare. «Cutremurarea» şi «vibraţia» (angoasa este subliniată auditiv), pe scurt «dezechilibrul» este consecinţa unui «şoc». Nici acum rana nu impune durerea, ci dezechilibrul
provocat de şoc induce suferinţa.
3. «Dacă se observă corect, reacţia apare în mod vădit anterior senzaţiei de durere. [...] Mai degrabă eu disting cât se poate de clar că întâi apare reacţia piciorului spre a evita căderea, iar apoi, la un interval de timp apreciabil, devine subit perceptibilă un fel de undă dureroasă în regiunea frontală.» Nietzsche demontează o veche prejudecată, prin care se afirma că durerea este cauza unei
reacţii. Analizând retardul dintre o reacţie de autoconservare şi senzaţia de durere, filosoful respinge o interpretare de tip cauză/efect. Mai degrabă durerea este o «reacţie», mişcarea contrară constând într-o altă reacţie (cele două avându-şi «sursa
în două locuri diferite.»). În concluzie, «diminuarea sentimentului de putere» nu ţine de «esenţa durerii». Se ajunge la distincţia dintre plăcere şi durere, de la care s-a început. Rezumând, durerea este o «maladie» (plăcerea – nu), cele două stări nu sunt
dialectice, durerea este un obstacol care asigură prin contrast creşterea puterii (la fel cum plăcerea însoţeşte sentimentul predominant al puterii). Înţeleg necesitatea respingerii durerii ca epifenomen în contextul unei teorii a voinţei de putere, dar nu ştiu dacă ea este justificată. Schopenhauer, atunci când îl parodiază pe Leibniz, spunând că trăim în cea mai rea din lumile posibile, chiar
dacă este agresiv şi excesiv, are dreptatea de partea lui. Din punctul de vedere al lui Schopenhauer, durerea este de netrecut: nu poate fi negată şi nu poate fi transcesă.
Nietzsche demonstrează că există stări în care durerea, dacă nu dispare, poate fi amânată. Cu alte cuvinte, semnalul indus de şoc – întârzie. Cazul durerii predormale îi dă dreptate. În cazul unei răni sau în cazul unei altercaţii violente excesul de adrenalină mută conştiinţa pe o altă frecvenţă. Durerea este diluată, este înşelată, doar pentru a reveni în forţă, atunci când este momentul ei. Ceva asemănător voinţei de putere, dacă putem folosi această metonimie pentru un proces neurologic se exprimă în locul durerii. Durerea este astfel transgresată, temporar. Cu toate acestea, durerea efectivă (în tortură, de exemplu) are imediatul ei. Nu este necesar să-l citim pe Cioran să actualizăm ramificaţiile culturale ale unei teorii ale durerii – judecata empirică poate să suplinească cunoştinţa durerii, care este universală.”
Source: Introducere in nihilismul nietzschean
“Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.”
Source: Cure for the Common Life
“Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.”
“Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.”
“Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.”
“Deflection became her signature move, redirecting inquiries about herself back to me or focusing solely on the present moment, as if the past didn't exist.”
Source: Calling Out the Shadows: A Father's Stand Against the Current: Clarity over comfort. Transparency over secrecy. Structure over spin. Love over anger.
“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs”
“Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.”
“Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.”
“Deformity of the heart I call
The worst deformity of all;
For what is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index, or its case?”
“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.”
“Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.”
“Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.”
Source: Passport to the war: a selection of poems
“Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
“Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not like I’m unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I’m blessed that they’re great musicians.”
“Defund Mauna Kea Observatories.”
“Defund Space.”
“Defy all that’s holy, for they are the seekers
Do the bidding for they are the devil’s speakers”
Source: The Macabre Masterpiece
“Defy everything that is not love.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Defy me not for gleam can only shine in my existence" said Darkness.”
“Defy norms that are obsolete, not norms in general. Society without norms exists only in fairytale.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Defy reason.”
“Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.”
“Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.”
“Defy the gravity of self-centricity, and you'll levitate to infinity.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.”
“Defy your confines; don't let confinements define you.”
“Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.”
“Defying evidence and blabbering mystical mumbo-jumbo don't make a person a sage or a monk, what does is a person's practical understanding of the world we live in, accompanied by a burning urge to bring that understanding into practice to lift humanity from the darkest pit of degradation.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'”
“Defying my childhood teachers by making a career out of daydreaming, coloring outside the lines, and making people laugh out loud.”
“Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.”
“Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists”
Source: Degeneration