Famous quotes containing the words relation and/or defined:
“The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; 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 (18031882)
“For a large class of casesthough not for allin which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)