Will you have one definition of them all? That is what I am seeking. If you want to have one definition of them all, I know not what to say, but that virtue is the power of governing mankind. And does this definition of virtue include all virtue? Is virtue the same in a child and in a slave, Meno? Can the child govern his father, or the slave his master; and would he who governed be any longer a slave? I think not, Socrates. No, indeed; there would be small reason in that.英文原著 · 《Meno》
I shall avoid all attempt at rigid definition. The problem before the modern investigator is, not to determine the essence and definition of religion but to inquire how religious phenomena, religious ideas and practices arose. Now the theoretical content of religion, the domain of theology or mythology, is broadly familiar to all. It is the world of the unseen, the supersensuous; it is the world of what we call the soul and the supposed objects of the soul's perception, sprites, demons, ghosts and gods. How did this world grow up?英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Parvis surveyed the question dispassionately. "Oh, no, I don't. I don't even say it wasn't straight." He glanced up and down the long lines of books, as if one of them might have supplied him with the definition he sought. "I don't say it WASN'T straight, and yet I don't say it WAS straight. It was business." After all, no definition in his category could be more comprehensive than that.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
Is it defined and its boundaries fixed? Who has done it? The people. But who are the people? We are as wise as we were at starting. The logicians say that the definition of idem per idem, or the same by the same, is simply no definition at all. The people are the nation, undoubtedly, if you mean by the people the sovereign people. But who are the people constituting the nation?英文原著 · 《The American Republic》
The definition of a certain virtue is written under that column where the judges for the aforesaid virtue sit, and when a judge gives judgment he sits and speaks thus: O son, thou hast sinned against this sacred definition of beneficence, or of magnanimity, or of another vir- tue, as the case may be. And after discussion the judge legally condemns him to the punishment for the crime of which he is accused -- viz., for injury, for despondency, for pride, for in- gratitude, for sloth, etc. But the sentences are certain and true correctives, savoring more of clemency than of actual punish- ment.英文原著 · 《The City of the Sun》
The new educator will, by regularly ordered experience, teach the child by degrees his place in the great orderly system of existence; teach him his responsibility towards his environment. But in other respects, none of the individual characteristics of the child expressive of his life will be suppressed, so long as they do not injure the child himself, or others. The right balance must be kept between Spencer's definition of life as an adaptation to surrounding conditions, and Nietzsche's definition of it as the will to secure power.英文原著 · 《The Education of the Child》
During their brief reign, Taylor papered the deal with Victor's satellite-- Taylor inserted a term, deep in the definitions, allowing Axe Cap to convert its investment into a general partnership.美剧 · 《Billions》
Some would argue that by virtue of just how much money you have, you have by definition done much wrong.美剧 · 《Billions》
Does the definition of suffering encompass the seduction of my client four days ago?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》