For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Balance Blood Class Classification Division Dream Equal Equality Food Happiness Harmonic Harmony Honor Human Income Justive Needs Occupy Peace Pulse Race Requirements Segegation Skills Space Survival Survive Truth Water World World Peace

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Bigotry Classification Close Mindedness Creativity Disservice Imagination Intelligence Knowledge Minds Open Mindedness Thoughts Window Wisdom

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Avoidance Benefits Classification Doors Exploitation Friends Friendship Hypocrisy Life Lessons Loyalty People Selection Social Classes Social Gaps Social Ladder Society

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Adjective Classification Creativity Genius History Intelligence Noun Variation

We aren't human.Yes. We. Are. His voice turns fierce. I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.

~ N.k. Jemisin

N.k. Jemisin Alienation Caste Caste System Classification Humanity Labeling Labels Oppression Outcast Outcasts Taxonomy

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Ambitions Classification Contentment Desire Discontentment Emotion Enjoyment Feeling Fun Itch Life Lifestyle Living Longing Meaninglessness Passions Pleasure Scratch Sin Urge Vanity Want

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

~ George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes Classification Experience Naturalist Science

He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.

~ Claire Robertson

Claire Robertson Caliper Classes Classification Man Science

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.

~ Roy A. Crowson

Roy A. Crowson Authority Classification Fundamental Material Materialism Math Mathematics Measure Purpose Science Study Taxonomy Universe

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers Categorization Classification Individuality Stereotypes

Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned, Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure, Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure, Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, andSpecies, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

~ Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz Anatomy Biology Classification Genera Science Species Zoology

We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.

~ James Gleick

James Gleick Classification Entropy Information Maxwell Organization