Categorical Expansion

Famous quotes containing the words categorical and/or expansion:

    We do the same thing to parents that we do to children. We insist that they are some kind of categorical abstraction because they produced a child. They were people before that, and they’re still people in all other areas of their lives. But when it comes to the state of parenthood they are abruptly heir to a whole collection of virtues and feelings that are assigned to them with a fine arbitrary disregard for individuality.
    Leontine Young (20th century)

    Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
    W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)