Quotes About Difference

What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.

Circularity--a dangerous word. Circularity of Heraclitus, yes: to go in one direction is truly to go in the other. A thick identity there, which truly contains difference.

The positive and the negative are the two 'sides' of a Being; in the vertical world, every being has this structure (To this structure is bound the ambiguity of the consciousness...of imperception in perception...). Against the doctrine of contradiction, absolute negation, the either or--Transcendence is identity within difference.

The universe is defined not by what one sees, what one says, but precisely by what one does not see, precisely what one does not say: by the difference between the one and the other.

The horizon is what, behind the thing, enables it to be a thing: gaps, ellipses, allusions to the sensible world, divergence, variation, difference of the 'world.

Consciousness of something is always consciousness of a difference between terms that are not given positively.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

Being killed is a very different thing from dying.

Rat je surova ali poštena borba, kao me?u životinjama. Život u miru je surova borba, ali nepoštena, kao me?u ljudima. Razlika je ogromna.

One question can make all the difference between your success or failure. A winner asks how it will be done. A loser asks why it cannot be done. Asking how to succeed, helps you find a way. Asking why you will fail, gives you an excuse to stay.

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

The difference between being ordinary and being extraordinary is that little extra.

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

What's the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

He came to understand the difference between the gods' blessed and a smart man. His uncle was one. His father the other.

If we all went out with people our type we'd be bored out of our brains

Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.