Category Quotes

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting out of the boundaries of one's own experience. There's a currently popular argument that books help us feel empathy, but if they do so they do it by helping us imagine that we are people we are not. Or to go deeper within ourselves, to be more aware of what it means to be heartbroken, or ill, or six, or ninety-six, or completely lost. Not just versions of our self rendered awesome and eternally justified and always right, living in a world in which other people only exist to help reinforce our magnificence, though those kinds of books and movies exist in abundance to cater to the male imagination. Which is a reminder that literature and art can also help us fail at empathy if it sequesters us in the Big Old Fortress of Magnificent Me.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“If you fall into the category of people who want to make a great use of their existence, you need to ask yourself these two questions; “what am I doing now”?; “Where is it taking me to?”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“The best characters which always say the truth and show it and somehow put you in reality are the villiance, like The Joker, the guy from The Shinning, The guy from the Storm of the Century, but not only they the victims also the people in The 33, The story of the Mr.Nobody, Unbroken the power of will... and many other people are in this category!”
― Deyth Banger

“Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“We can now say this: the capacities that homo erectus and homo sapiens generically have in common - such that they may both be generically characterized as 'walking', 'eating', 'drinking', and 'playing' - must formally differ in the manner in which they are done in order for these respective pairs of sets of activities to belong to the very different forms of life that they do. The philosophical obstacles that stand in the way of such a vision of the human animal are considerable. If the wish to transpose Wittgenstein's point here into Boyle's Kantian idiom, then it may be put as follows: walking, eating, and drinking are not just parts of our material animal nature that can be brought into view apart from their relation to a form. If we seek to understand what is involved in learning to walk, eat, and drink as we do, this will require conceiving those activities under the aspect of their human form. Such forms of learning characterize 'initiation' into our form of life no less deeply than learning how to give orders, ask questions, tell stories, and chat. In relation to the concept of our form of life, not only do these capacities all stand at the same level, but more importantly: those in the one set would not be of the sort that characterize our form of life unless they were part and parcel of a single form of life that also involved those in the other. Our manner of walking, eating, drinking, and playing and our manner of giving orders, asking questions, telling stories, and chatting all partake of a single form. The form here in question figures in Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy as a very abstract logical (or, as he later prefers to say, grammatical) category - the category of a form of life.”
― James Conant, The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics

“DeSoto County was hit by category 3 hurricane Ian followed by days of historic flooding!”
― Steven Magee

“It is only a matter of time before we have category 6 hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Climate change is in the process of turning the most powerful category 5 hurricanes into future category 6 supermassive hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Are category 6 supermassive hurricanes the future?”
― Steven Magee

“Is a category 6 supermassive hurricane in your future?”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be nearer than you think!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes sound so cool and so scary!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes are probably going to be popular with school kids!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will make everything that came before look tame.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes are going to be the new monster!”
― Steven Magee

“Humans versus category 6 supermassive hurricanes!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be coming to you in the future!”
― Steven Magee

“Never heard of Category 6 supermassive hurricanes? Mother nature is working on it.”
― Steven Magee

“Never heard of category 6 supermassive hurricanes? Keep on burning the fossil fuels and you may get to meet one!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will run on fossil fuel.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be the end of Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will likely result from global warming.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will feed on warm water.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will be like nothing that has come before them!”
― Steven Magee

“I’ve learned it is best to simply look at a person not as a title or category they might fit in to, but rather for who they are.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Tempt a Scoundrel

“Kusadari bahwa dunia telah memecah-mecah segalanya, memecah-mecah manusi amenjadi tuan dan budak, memecah perseorangan menjadi pikiran dan tubuh, dan memecah-mecah tubuh menjadi bagian yang terhormat dan yang tak terhormat. Kusadari bahwa dunia telah memecah-mecah segala sesuatu, kecuali diriku sendiri. Telah dipecah-pecahnya laki-laki, perempuan, anak-anak, penguasa dan yang dikuasai. Tak ada yang memisahkan pemecahan-pemecahan politik dari pemecahan-pemecahan seksual. Seniman yang jujur tahun dengan kejujurannya ke permainan politik dan tenggelam dengan seninya dalam jerat-jerat seks. Politik dan seks adalah musuh-musuh seni dan manusia. Tapi seorang seniman, yang dengan seninya, mengingatkan diri kepada jajaran orang-orang yang diperintah dengan nama apa saja atau negeri apa saja; yang, melalui kemanusiannya, menolak tubuh para penguasa dalam segala bentuk; yang, menurut pandangannya, tertarik kepada seks karena ilusi mengenai cinta; yang mengikatkan diri dengan dunia ini dan segala isinya, sementara diketahuinya dengan pasti bahwa dunia ini akan memecah-mecah dirinya, orang ini sama merasa pasti bahwa ia takkan dipecah-pecah.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, موت معالي الوزير سابقاً