Quotes About Distinction

T]he Christians abolished the distinction between soul and person, species and individual, and therefore placed immediately in self what belongs only to the totality of the species.

T]here is no distinction between the predicates of the divine and human nature, and, consequently, no distinction between the divine and human subject … [T]he predicates are not accidents, but express the essence of the subject … [T]he essence of religion … conceives and affirms a profoundly human relation as divine relations[.]

T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. … [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first founds the distinction between existence and non-existence. In consciousness is first revealed the value of existence, the value of nature.

It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction...

donde hay poca diferencia entre el cristiano y el no cristiano en lo que pensamos y creemos, pronto habrá poca diferencia en como vivimos.

T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

Las decisiones clave que hagas, aparte de tu talento natural, te separarán de los demás que sólo tengan talento.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Interesse für Kunst oder Literatur hat stets, ob bewusst oder unbewusst, auch damit zu tun, dass man das Selbst aufwertet, indem man sich von jenen abgrenzt, die keinen Zugang zu solchen Dingen haben; es handelt sich um eine Distinktion, einen Unterschied im Sinne einer Kluft, die konstitutiv ist für das Selbst und die Art, wie man sich selbst sieht, und zwar immer im Vergleich zu den anderen - den bildungsfernen oder unteren Schichten etwa.

Trump is determined to enforce the law. It is only by erasing the distinction between legals and illegals that the left can insist, as it blusteringly does, that "Trump is against immigrants.

If you confuse, you'll lose.

The brain remembers music and forgets about noise just like the brain remembers some brands and forgets about others.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

It was only that his intellect was in such a constant state of multitasking that he seemed to orbit at altitude, separated from those who operated on a more ordinary plane.

But the bridge that crosses the great gulf runs from God to us, never from us to God. We do not travel through the cross to find God; instead, God has traveled through the cross to find us. The significance of this distinction is great.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.