Quotes About Representation

The degree to which language exactly mirrors reality is debatable.

An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents—a

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents—a low level, but what can you expect?

If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents—a low level, but what can you expect? So

However, the position of my books, and of post-modernism in general, which regards all representations, or maps, or models, as probabilistic and relative to their social context, Gross and Levitt dismissively call "perspectivism" (a good word in my estimation, so I cheerfully accept it). Gross and Levitt see perspectivism as an insidious threat to their One True Faith and a pathway downward to the bottomless abyss of nihilism.

Furthermore, what you can say about what you saw depends on the structure of your symbolism — whether you describe it in English, Persian, Chinese, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, differential calculus or quaternions. This explains why, in Dr. Jones's words, whatever we are describing, the human mind cannot be parted from it.

People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.

If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real. We elect a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That was the whole idea in the first place. As they used to tell us in school. And it's a good idea, if we could make it real. It might never have been real, up till now. But now's the time. Now's the time, people!

A map is the representation of a landscape, after all, and many landscapes, like Orange County's, are principally psychic.

ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.

When you have a country formed out of a lot of groups that don't trust each other, with one a clear majority, then you get what they call 'census voting,' where politicians represent their groups, and get their votes, and election results are always just a reflection of population numbers. In that situation the same thing happens every time, so the majority group has a monopoly on power, and the minorities feel hopeless, and eventually rebel.

If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.

Court jester or ambassador. Same difference. Either way you entertain the king.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.