Analytic Function Defined

Famous quotes containing the words analytic, function and/or defined:

    ““You, that have not lived in thought but deed,
    Can have the purity of a natural force,
    But I, whose virtues are the definitions
    Of the analytic mind, can neither close
    The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)