Quotes About Representation

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

One picture is worth a thousand words

Apenas se puede negar que el objetivo supremo de toda teoría es hacer los elementos básicos tan simples y tan poco numerosos como sea posible, sin renunciar a la representación adecuada de un simple dato

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy.

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!

When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.

Simboliai ir be spalv? atlieka savo darb?

our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for ever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

Threequarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.