Quotes about Categorization

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

Even after the war, Eugenia, do you still put people into categories the way you were taught to do—rich and poor, socially acceptable and not, black and white?" "I haven't placed them there. Life has." "But people are all the same in God's eyes, don't you think? Or do you believe there will be segregated divisions in heaven like the ones we've created here on earth?

To define, however, is simply to bound, to separate, or distinguish; so that the thing defined may be discriminated from all other things.

When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.