Ambrosia/definition

Famous quotes containing the words ambrosia and/or definition:

“Someone who instinctively nourishes himself on ambrosia alone, who leaves behind what is indigestible in things.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)