Quotes About Relation

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard.

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

The object of the theoretical (as separate from the practical) Qabalah, insofar as this thesis is concerned, is to enable the student to do three main things: First, to analyze every idea in terms of the Tree of Life. Second, to trace a necessary connection and relation between every and any class of ideas by referring them to this standard of comparison. Third, to translate any unknown system of symbolism into terms of any known one by its means.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

The oppression of a minority- whether political, religious, or ethnic- has long borne an uncanny relation to the production of art of lasting value.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.

The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.

What's that got to do with anything?

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

How could Paolo think the queen and her ilk were my people? I had no more relation to them than a pigeon does to a flock of swans – or a vortex of vultures, which the castle's denizens better resembled in both attire and attitude.