1 The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William James, Categorization, Comparison, Intellect, 0 William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA Copy
2 You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jake Gyllenhaal, Categorization, Complexity, Simplicity, 0 Jake Gyllenhaal Copy
3 Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Categorization, Enemy, Friend, 0 George Orwell Writer · India Copy
4 I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Byrne, Categorization, Organization, 0 David Byrne Musician · Scotland Copy
5 Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Legend, Categorization, Criticism, Limitation, 0 John Legend Singer · USA Copy
6 Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it’s all African-American music. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Johnny Otis, Categorization, Society, 0 Johnny Otis Copy
7 Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don’t eat. Author, January 3, 2024January 6, 2025, Stephen Sondheim, Categorization, Food, Warning, 0 Stephen Sondheim Composer Copy
8 All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Ned Rorem, Categorization, Division, Uniqueness, 0 Ned Rorem Composer · USA Copy
9 There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Umberto Eco, Categorization, Insults, Judgement, 0 Umberto Eco Writer · Italy Copy
10 We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Thom Gunn, Categorization, Reading, Restrictions, 0 Thom Gunn Poet · England Copy
11 Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Author, July 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Abstraction, Categorization, Necessity, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England Copy
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. Lucretius Philosopher and poet · Italy
If it takes you apart, that’s not love. Love puts you back together. Catherine Ryan Hyde Novelist · USA
God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love Richard Wurmbrand Pastor and Christian missionary · Romania
