“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.” IfsFirstsArtistSawsDutyFunctionCritics Author:J. E. H. MacDonald
“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.” FeelsMeanHas BeensArtStillsPastAliveModernDutyArt IsFunctionCommunicateLiberated Author:Antony Gormley
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.” WorldWayShowsArtistDarkDutyProductsBirthFunctionShakesPillarsAncestryComplacentSleepers Author:Norman Bethune
“Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.” ShouldStatesJusticeDutyFunctionPrimariesJealousExtensionsMaintainingPeace And JusticeVigilanceMaintaining Peace Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.” HumansChildrenGrowthHuman BeingsQualityHonestGreatnessDutyDevelopmentOrganizationFunctionUrgesMartial ArtsSincereExpansionHuman DevelopmentHuman PotentialMartial Arts InspirationalPersonal Growth And DevelopmentBeing SincereDevelopment And GrowthFuture Growth Author:Bruce Lee
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962” NeedsHumansHas BeensLiteratureGamesChurchCitiesResponsibilityChangedDutyGrewNeededSpeechDespairSingingLowsEmptyFunctionSpeciesCriticalHallsPaleExclusiveNobelDecemberCaloriesPriesthoodHuman NeedsBanquetsBardsStockholmCity Hall Book:A Life in Letters Source: A Life in Letters
“No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.” KindLongDifferentWould BeActionLawScienceExistenceDutyConnectionsOrganizationAccountsFunctionStructureCalmConvictionExceptionDifferent KindsMarvellousCerebralHemisphereSeparateness Author:Herbert Spencer
“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.” MenHeartLongMomentsCharacterCertainCommonBrainDutyBirthExerciseCapableTrainingConsciousFunctionRelationInstrumentsPatientSupremeInternalsOrgansLiverDischarge Author:Ray V. Pierce
“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.” ThinkingShouldBodyCausesSleepBrainDutyHabitEvidenceFunctionRadioWideAwakePhenomenonTime Of DayWide Awake Author:Evan Davis
“In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.” StatesGovernmentChurchReligiousAtheismDutyCitizensDegreesJudgmentOrganizationFunctionCongressConvictionPresidentialSmallestScruples Author:James A. Garfield
“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .” IfsThinkingMayArtStillsIdeasPhilosophyFormReligiousMoralGreaterDutyFunctionAncientHumanistPointingGuiseFalsity Author:Corliss Lamont
“That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.” ParentCreativeDutyOfficeDegreesApproachFunctionClaimsSupremeDeitiesSolemn Book:The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World
“Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.” DutyKeysExerciseCallingOfficeAuthorityFunctionPerformingPriesthoodPriesthood Keys Author:Dallin H. Oaks