T Quotes
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“The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.”
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
“The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.”
Source: Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]
“The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.”
“The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.”
“The function of art is to struggle against obligation.”
“The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.”
Source: Digital Film-Making
“The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.”
“The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.”
“The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.”
Source: Unicorn Variations
“The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.”
“The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.”
Source: Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.”
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”
Source: Historical Essays
“The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.”
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
“The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.”
Source: The American Zone
“The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.”
“The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“The function of hegemony is to transform ideology into culture, into a "world view" that is seen as "normal" and "natural" by everyone from the controlling classes to the subordinate classes. Today, the major means of establishing the hegemony are the mass media.”
Source: Marxism: A Graphic Guide
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.”
“The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”
Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
“The function of international law, at the most basic level, is to secure the coexistence of sovereign States.”
Source: International Law: A Very Short Introduction
“The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.”
Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”
“The function of man's highest faculty, his reason, consists precisely of the continuous limitation of infinity, the breaking up of infinity into convenient, easily digestible portions.”
Source: We
“The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.”
“the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.”
Source: Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917
“The function of mindfulness is, first, to recognize the suffering and then to take care of the suffering. The work of mindfulness is first to recognize the suffering and second to embrace it. A mother taking care of a crying baby naturally will take the child into her arms without suppressing, judging it, or ignoring the crying. Mindfulness is like that mother, recognizing and embracing suffering without judgement.
So the practice is not to fight or suppress the feeling, but rather to cradle it with a lot of tenderness. When a mother embraces her child, that energy of tenderness begins to penetrate into the body of the child. Even if the mother doesn't understand at first why the child is suffering and she needs some time to find out what the difficulty is, just her acto f taking the child into her arms with tenderness can alreadby bring relief. If we can recognize and cradle the suffering while we breathe mindfully, there is relief already.”
Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”
Source: Birdsong
“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. The most moving moments of our lives find us without words. What can be explained with words is only the waves, the foam on the surface, but music has its place underneath the waves, in the silent depth of the unspeakable”
Source: Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
“The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.”
“The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.”
Source: Public Opinion
“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.”
“The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.”
“The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.”
Source: The White Goddess
“The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.”
Source: To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966
“The function of pop music is to be consumed.”