Relation Quotes
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.
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.
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.
There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.
God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
