“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.” DoeTwoReasonProblemLyingValuesQualityReturnFunctionAbsolutesTreatmentSuperstitionsBalancedArbitraryPositivelyCritiqueObsessiveTwo Options Author:John Ralston Saul
“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.” MayExistenceReturnCostResourcesFunctionEntrepreneurFirmDependentTransactions Author:Ronald Coase
“The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.” GivingMadeStatesPoliticalGivenOpinionReturnPoliticianFunctionPaidSoldierPublic OpinionProvisionHysteriaCharlatans Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926 Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.” ArtPoetryLanguageSocialReturnFunctionNarrativeNarrative Art Author:Ron Silliman
“There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.” MovingFormNumbersCasesReturnEqualMouthsFunctionLipsTongueOccasionsMuscles Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.” WayHumansRunningNaturalHuman BeingsPersonalityReturnEatingFunctionAllowingBlankCanvasDeliciousPlaying MusicDelicious FoodBlank Canvas Author:Ezra Miller
“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.” MenDreamFormSawsObjectsSeriousExpressionReturnFunctionInstrumentsArchitectureRationalBordersTowersIrrationalConvenienceUtopiaBaroqueEiffel Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies