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Quote Left The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabilizing principle is the naturalization of social classifications. There needs to be an analogy by which the formal structure of a crucial set of social relations is found in the physical world, or in the supernatural world, or in eternity, anywhere, so long as it is not seen as a socially contrived arrangement. When the analogy is applied back and forth from one set of social relations to another, and from these back to nature, its recurring formal structure becomes easily recognized and endowed with self-validating truth... For discourse to be possible at all, the basic categories have to be agreed on. Nothing else but institutions can define sameness. Similarity is an institution. Quote Right
Quote Left The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art Quote Right
Quote Left Elsewhere, I have pointed out that overfeeding of rats profoundly influences the incidence particularly of endocrine tumours. Furthermore, endocrine tumours and tumours of tissues, such as the breast and uterus, which are very directly under sex-hormone control, constitute a very high proportion of the tumours observed in most carcinogenicity studies in rats. [Comparing] the incidences of tumours in these categories in men and women with those in male and female rats... [shows] the differences between the two species are sufficiently striking to make one wonder how appropriate the laboratory rat is as a model for man in terms of the spectra of tumours to which they are prone. Quote Right
Quote Left The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the 'innocence of eye' that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word 'trite' has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see 'the correspondences between things' of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago. Quote Right
Quote Left In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories. Quote Right
Quote Left Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions Quote Right
Quote Left Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. Quote Right
Quote Left Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. Quote Right
Quote Left Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Quote Right
Quote Left 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. Quote Right
Quote Left Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Quote Right
Quote Left Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. Quote Right
Quote Left Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. Quote Right
Quote Left soft drink, financial institution and automobile product categories. Quote Right
Quote Left Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Quote Right
Quote Left There are only two categories of doctors and scientists who are not opposed to vivisection: Those who don’t know enough about it and those who make money from it. Quote Right
Quote Left Hitler said that categories were the greatest tool a leader can use to control people and set them against each other. We should stop categorizing each other for all of the misconceptions that it causes. Quote Right
Quote Left A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Categories

Quote Left “Don’t Close Your eyes or deny the past, realize we are One people With Many Stories breathing the same air and living under the same sun, So forget the categories, MAKE IT CLEAR, it not about Black History Month but about Making Human History All year” — Christen Kuikoua Quote Right
Quote Left There are two categories of old people. Those who got old because of what time did to them. And those who got old because of what they did with time. First just got old. Second who spent their time trying to learn things, to understand the world, looked for meaning and did things that they considered meaningful got old too but they took advantage of time in transcendental way and bent it. They learned something and they understood that the knowledge has eternal power. Quote Right

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