Quotes about category
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“Landscape, at its best, is not a narrow category. It is a source of surprise. It allows for the sudden assertion of a place, like an unexpected time signature within a melody.”

An-My Lê (1960) American photographer

Interview with the Art Newspaper (August 13, 2020)

Time
Joe Armstrong photo

“How to make a list? Collecting the data, that's the easy bit. Sorting it into categories is slightly more difficult. Shortening the list is the most difficult part. That a really difficult problem.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Problem, Parting
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“No one knows anything about infinity. Perhaps 'unconditional love' can also be placed in this category.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love
Romila Thapar photo

“To categorize some people as indigenous and others as alien, to argue about the identity of the first inhabitants of the subcontinent, and to try and sort out these categories for the remote past, is to attempt the impossible.”

Romila Thapar (1931) Indian historian

Introduction, xxiv.
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300

People, Past
Walter Benjamin photo

“Criticism and prophecy must be the two categories that meet in the salvation of the past”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Source: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels [Origin of the German Mourning Play] (1925), p. 53-54 (trans. John Osborne (London: Verso, 1977)

Past
Leopold II of Belgium photo

“If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category.”

Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians

Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-2-0 ISBN 9789463962094

Life, God

“Philosophy is the attempt to formulate principles or categories which the philosopher already possesses, in common with everyone else, but in an unformulated state.”

Otis Hamilton Lee (1902–1948) American philosopher

Source: [10.1086/286600, Philosophy and Science, Philosophy of Science, 7, 7–17, 1940, Lee, Otis]

Prevale photo

“One of the worst categories of people is the one who always wants to being right knowing you don't have it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Una delle peggiori categorie di individui è quella che vuole sempre aver ragione sapendo di non averla.
Source: prevale.net

People
Prevale photo

“There are three categories of individuals: the false, the envious and the bad. The false, do not have the courage to show themselves and be themselves. The envious, they do not take advantage to learn something new and be able to do better. The villains, they willfully and severely harm the health of others.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Esistono tre categorie di individui: i falsi, gli invidiosi ed i cattivi. I falsi, non hanno il coraggio di mostrarsi ed essere se stessi. Gli invidiosi, non approfittano per imparare qualcosa di nuovo e poter fare di meglio. I cattivi, danneggiano volontariamente e gravemente la salute degli altri.
Source: prevale.net

Health, Courage, Learning, Falseness
Prevale photo

“Anyone who causes harm to others, while pretending to be a good person, belongs exclusively to the worst category of human beings.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chiunque causi del male agli altri, fingendo di essere una brava persona, appartiene esclusivamente alla peggiore categoria di esseri umani.
Source: prevale.net

Personality