Every fixed emotion should realize itself in an idea or image that gives it body and systematizes it, without which it remains diffuse; and all affective states can take on this permanent form which makes a unified principle of them.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
Midrash, as the investigations of the commentators were called, by and by divided into two streams-Halacha, which establishes and systematizes the statutes of the Law, and Haggada, which uses the sacred texts for homiletic, historical, ethical, and pedagogic discussions.
"Jewish Literature and Other Essays"
Gustav Karpeles
He does what the atheist is generally too lazy to do for himself; he takes his substitute for religion and systematizes it into something like a philosophy.
"G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study"
Julius West