Quotes About Relation

the surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that he never revealed it. (When Ted had once asked him his first name, Mendelssohn had said only: Not Felix.)

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

How is it these children, these young women came from her? What relation do they bear to the small beings she once nursed and dandled and washed?

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

C'est un animal qu'on apprivoise, un enfant on l'élève !

Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them into intimate relation with ourselves.

He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that relation.

Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that relation. We express the difficulty that we have in getting to a place in a system of miles or kilometres which becomes false as soon as that difficulty decreases.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

The state, she writes, "is not a thing, system, or subject, but a significantly unbounded terrain of powers and techniques, an ensemble of discourses, rules and practices, cohabiting in limited, tension-ridden, often contradictory relation with one another.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being 'drawn toward.' Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

Relation is what I share with you. Success is what I pray for you. Happiness is what I wish for you. But remember is what I need from you. Your sweet heart.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

As long as love is "blind" - that is, as long as it does not see a whole being - it does not yet truly stand under the basic word of relation. Hatred remains blind by its very nature; one can hate only part of a being.

The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud but reveals itself, it lacks but creates language. We hear no You and yet addressed; we answer - creating, thinking, acting: with our being we speak the basic word, unable to say You with our mouth. Bt how can we incorporate into the world of the basic word that lies outside language?

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.