Who said “In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be…”?

“By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.”

“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”

“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

“In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.”

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the nanve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.”

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”