Definition Removes

Famous quotes containing the words definition and/or removes:

“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)

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)