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“Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.”

Ifs Giving Two Light Names Meditation Function Substance Good Friend Lamps

Book:The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”

Mean Next Names Given Grief One Day Function Length Texture

Author:Julian Barnes

“An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.”

Names Objects Function

Author:Rene Magritte

“The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.”

Soul Names Conditions Function Definitions Deny Our Thoughts Unnatural

Author:Robert Bridges

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.”

Ifs Stills Matter Science Names Sweet Buddhism Function Rose Intellect Smell Convenient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.”

Ifs War Names Social Class Drug Racism Function War On Drugs Social Control

Author:David Simon

“We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.”

Action Names Products Goes On Aspect Function Materialism Compelled Naturalism Material Things Physical Things

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy

“Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.”

Way Giving Important Science Certain Names Special Example Function Mathematics Property Convenient

Author:Richard Askey

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience”

Ideas Truth Names Process Function Verification

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

“The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.”

People Persons Names Exercise Function Determine Chosen Representatives Entitled Elders

Book:What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855

Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855

“Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.”

Knows World Way Feels Writing Names Shapes Paper Function Deeper

Book:Writing Your Way

Source: Writing Your Way

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”

People Want Feels Seems Artist Names Position Source Offers Authority Comfortable Function Range Priests Consolation Surrogates

Author:Alex Johnston

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

Firsts Moments Body Lasts Three Names Thirds Function Graves Cease Existentialism That Moment Last Time

Author:David Eagleman

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom

“She [Susanna] realized she was still hugging the wall. Pride propelled her two steps forward. As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing. She stopped midstep and peered at it. "Did you know there's a lamb in here?" "Never mind it. That's dinner." She gave it a smile and a friendly pat. "Hullo, Dinner. Aren't you a sweet thing." "It's not his name, it's his...function.”

Knows Mind Stills Two Names Steps Sweet Wall Pride Function Dinner Friendly Hug Lambs Steps Forward Did You Know Sweet Things Trespassing

Author:Tessa Dare