Relation Defined

Famous quotes containing the words relation and/or defined:

    “The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant’s; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)