Usual Definition

Famous quotes containing the words usual and/or definition:

“All his usual formalites of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

“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)