Quotes with relation

  • The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
  • Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
  • We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
  • In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
  • There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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  • Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Blaise Pascal Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Hosea Ballou Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Benito Mussolini 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.
    Source: The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Anthony Holden I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • David Livingstone I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Bill James In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • George Eliot Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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