Quotes 41 till 55 of 55.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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