Quotes About Relation

The brilliancy of Aristotle's genius is shown by this alone, that he discovered, in the expression of the value of commodities, a relation of equality. The peculiar conditions of the society in which he lived, alone prevented him from discovering what, "in truth," was at the bottom of this equality.

T]he emancipation of the workers contains universal human emancipation — and it contains this because the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production, and all relations of servitude are but modifications and consequences of this relation.

Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.

But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can't deny your own kin.