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Quotes About Recognition

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La gloria es una forma de incomprensión; quizás la peor.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Tutti assomigliamo all'immagine che gli altri hanno di noi.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I shall be the other I am without knowing it.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Todos nos parecemos a la imagen que tienen de nosotros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love... A just man is just, therefore, because he sanctions another person in his very separateness and helps him to receive his due.
~ Josef Pieper
I have never bothered or asked", Goethe said to Friedrich Soret in 1830, "in what way I was useful to society as a whole; I contented myself with expressing what I recognized as good and true. That has certainly been useful in a wide circle; but that was not the aim; it was the necessary result."35
~ Josef Pieper
I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
~ Joseph Campbell
In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.
~ Joseph Campbell
The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that the god that is in you recognises the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.
~ Joseph Campbell
The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.
~ Joseph Campbell
Minha definição de demônio é um anjo que não foi reconhecido. Melhor dizendo, é um poder seu para o qual você negou expressão, e você reprime. Então, como toda energia reprimida, ela começa a crescer e a tornar-se muito perigosa.
~ Joseph Campbell
To all the usual folks: Mom, Sally, Nik, Russell, the DFWWW, my agent, my editor, Orbit Books, the people who buy the books, Optimus Prime, and the rest. You're still just as important as you ever were and this is a lot easier because of you. To Atomic Robo, for keeping my love of comic books alive and well. And to Victor Von Doom.
~ A. Lee Martinez
There are celebrities in New York that no one's heard of in New Jersey. It is interested and influenced by itself.
~ A.A. Gill
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
~ A.A. Milne
When are they going to stop calling me General?" "When are they going to stop calling me Princess?" Han & Leia
~ Aaron Allston
But how many senators, representatives, and justices are on our currency, have monuments on the National Mall, have their names on towns, cities, counties, states, or figure prominently in Hollywood movies, television, or cable series? Congress and the Supreme Court can be in or out of session. The president is the Energizer Bunnyâ"¢ of the American government.
~ Aaron David Miller
Now, what can I do for you, Agent Hayes?" "It's just R.C., thanks." He wondered for a second if he should have business cards printed up saying that. "What
~ Aaron Rosenberg
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
~ Abbott L. Lowell
The Islamic view of sexuality, then, is a total one. Its aim is to integrate the sexual as everyday experience. Islam is a recognition, not a misapprehension of sexuality.
~ Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!
~ Abd-Ru-Shin