Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of...

…properly a theory about knowledge, not about religion. A theist and a Christian may be an agnostic; an atheist may not be an agnostic. An atheist may deny that there is God, and in this...

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.

Nonetheless, it remains the case that the psychological literature on organised abuse has not provided a coherent explanation for the emergence of sexually abusive groups in a range of contexts, or for the difficulties that...

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, ‘Well, are you a Republican...

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a...

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates;...

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn’t that sad to judge others with our standards… rather than appreciate them?

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able – having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym.

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

I have loved every single person I met in my life, just the definition and situation varied.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

What reading level is the word love? It’s a four-letter word everybody knows the meaning of, but nobody can define it.

Quit analyzing me. My crazy needs no definition.

When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; a Christian or a freethinker, I found that the more...

You are not defining your purpose — your purpose is defining you.

philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician’s car.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can’t understand it.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word – nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and...

Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of...

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

Atheism … goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook of those who saw no presence of God (or gods) in their everyday...

I don’t know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

What defines me as a person? A dictionary.

By historical definition, the Ellen Rometsch strategy is the use of FBI files by J. Edgar Hoover, … Judicial Watch and others believe that this is the Clinton Administration’s last line of defense to its...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before...

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt…!

Strategy is about shaping the future.

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

There’s probably a word for that,” but there’s probably a word for that.

Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love’s activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight. This grammar of life not all can see.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the Holy Writ shall not.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]