“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.” WayHomeAmericaFunctionStructureIncomeContactOperationsVisibleMassiveIngredientsConcreteElectricPersuasionTelephonesDoseExhibitionsInhibitionsObscenityMultiplicationBodily Functions Author:Jean Baudrillard
“The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature, except for ignorant people. Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world. Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature.” PeopleWorldArtHandsTogetherLawUniverseForceNaturalMagicExerciseOrdinaryFunctionMiracleProfoundInvisibleIgnorantSuperiorsVisibleLaws Of NatureViolationGoverningOccultSpiritualismAdeptIgnorant People Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.” WorldMindMeanFilmPracticePiecesCuttingPaintingMaterialsEssentialsLowsFunctionPaintRateMediumsCinemaMealsVisibleDistinctionOppositionScenariosDocile Author:Herbert Read
“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.” CivilizationEssenceFunctionVisibleWildernessRefugeUrbanHornsIntangiblePavementNegationBillboards Author:Benton MacKaye
“The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.” BodyCertainPositionFunctionDistanceSurfacePainterVisible Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.” IfsHumansDoeMatterSeemsTodayValuesResponsibilityPrinciplesEconomyEthicsAccountsFunctionVisibleSolidarityInteriorsExteriorHuman ValuesReciprocal Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.” MeanGodSpiritualityNaturalChurchBuildingFunctionMotiveVisible Book:True Spirituality Source: True Spirituality
“Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.” WayFactsScienceCoursesGrowthSimpleAnimalStageDevelopmentFunctionSeriesLeavingSimplicityFishesObviousComplicatedBreatheDisappearScalesDevelopingExplanationVisibleAcquireAncestorOrgansRepetitionStraightforwardFrogsShort TimeTadpoles Author:Francis Maitland Balfour
“As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.” PeopleAbleResponsibilityClearSeaFunctionCancerOfficialsVisiblePublic Officials Author:Lindy Boggs