Entity State

Famous quotes containing the words entity and/or state:

“What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)