Quotes About Relation

To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

The well then contained death as it once contained merely water, frogs and harmless floating things. The horror of that death by drowning lived in the area behind the carvanda hedge like a mad relation, a family scandal or a hereditary illness waiting to re-emerge. It was a blot, a black and stinking blot.

The New Héloise in the field of sentiment and of the relation of the sexes, The Social Contract In political theory, and Émile in matters of education, were books whose influence upon Coleridge's generation it would be hard to estimate

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.

The size of a human cell is to that of a person as a person's size is to that of Rhode Island. Likewise, a virus is to a person as a person is to the earth; an atom is to a person as a person is to the earth's orbit around the sun; and a proton is to a person as a person is to the distance to Alpha Centauri.

There is no need for God to situate himself in relation to others: he is himself the situation.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character

I always gel with people easily.

If everything we project onto reality to make it intelligible were eliminated, ? no things remain but only dynamic quanta, in a relation of tension to all other dynamic quanta.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love.

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.