Home / Topics / Function Quotes

Function Quotes

Browse 2701 quotes about Function.

Function Quotes

“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.”

Humans Self Moments Reality Bears Demand Normal Essence Function Simplicity Witness Evident Hostile Fringe Brutality Reverie Human Psyche

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.”

Humans Heart Body Activity Function Witness Compare Fascinating Organs Human Heart Intestines

Author:Denton Cooley

“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”

People Reason Hands Actors Found Difficult Talking Photography Function Cameras Witness Shy Substitutes

Author:Martine Franck

“A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.”

Self Simple Levels Organization Function Complexes Witness Organisms Robust

Author:Antonio Damasio

“How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?”

Doe Artist Poet Function Witness Tricksters

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.”

Mind Body Function Instruments Rewards Witness Operations Get Well

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana