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“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”

“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

Men Way Mean Art Use Spiritual Law Class Minutes Art Is Function Aim Chaos Bounds Likes Distinction Sublime Proletariat Bourgeoisie Class Distinction

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”

Want Animal Function Bounds Thrill Intellectualism

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels

“Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.”

Individual Talent Advantage Function Historical Environmental Bounds Factors Steady Accumulation Individual Talent

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality”

Reality Moving Form Individual Issues Subjects Higher Ideals Function Bounds Various Determined Statements Conformity Dominant Always Moving

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

Virtue Function Bounds Vices Reasonable Vice And Virtue

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

Facts Helping School Education Emotional Intellectual Function Bounds Intelligence Educational Limitation Our Time Great Education Great Educational Inspirational Education Inspirational Educational Value Of Education

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."”

People Women Democracy Function Institutions Court Bounds Dilemma Aristocratic

Author:Rose Bird

“As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.”

States United United States Support Exercise Function Constitution Bounds Department Executives Interpretation Judicial

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836