"Scalene" Quotes from Famous Books
... very consciousness that other individuals and other qualities fall under our concept, changes this concept, as a psychological presence, and alters its distinctness and extent. When I remember, to use a classical example, that the triangle is not isosceles, nor scalene, nor rectangular, but each and all of those, I reduce my percept to the word and its definition, with perhaps a sense of the general motion of the hand and eye by which we ... — The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana |