By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8). Dorotheus of Gaza
I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise. Vangelis
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice. Angela Davis
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality. Kenneth Burke
Systems at each level of integration function as wholes with respect to their parts and parts with respect to higher level wholes. Ervin László
I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function. Robert Venturi