Relation Quotes

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

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.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

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

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.