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“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.”

Important Social Process Decision Produce Majors Function Institutions Mere Backgrounds Decision Making Minors Supplements Important Decisions Decision Making Process Social Capital

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.”

Believe Art Happens Joy Views Art Is Experience Function Mere Pursuit Cake Vehicle Linked Gallery Utopian Icing Art Galleries Icing On The Cake

Author:Antony Gormley

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”

Men Looks Action Fighting Poor Danger He Man Ought Battle Criticism Function Stress Mere Critics Deeds Substitutes Indispensable Usefulness Subordinates Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters”

World Way Wells Doe Different Differences Creativity Creative Our Lives Equal Function Mere Tolerance Denial Fund Sparks New Ways Advocating Charter Sustenance Toleration Dialectics Polarity

Author:Audre Lorde

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.”

Communication Function Mere

Author:George Russell

“Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.”

Men Reason Degrees Function Mere Possession Flight Beast Equipment Exceed Something Better

Author:Adelard of Bath

“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.”

Needs Important Sometimes Political Social Can Do Ordinary Function Mere Welcome Prose Distraction Agitation

Author:Howard Zinn

“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”

Ifs Way Children Social Parent Business Judgment Function Mere Advertising Our Time Parental Degrading Insolent Usurpers

Author:Jules Henry

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.”

Heart Inspiration Values Brain Virtue Blood Arms Function Mere Legs Psychological Organs Stem Self Development

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.”

Mind Stills Wisdom Spiritual Doubt Trouble Awareness Aspect Function Mere Senses Resistance Psychological Traffic Comes And Goes Policemen Bodily Functions

Author:Mooji

“Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.”

Men Animal Greater Share Effects Degrees Diversity Function Plant Mere Variety Perceive Fallen Organs Pact

Author:Aristotle