Cathedral/definition

Famous quotes containing the words cathedral and/or definition:

“... and met
At numerous cathedral cities
Unknown to the clergy.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)