[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a… — Steve King Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how each one of us sees ourselves in the band, but we're being part of this ritual of identity… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
My first album deals with my anxiety. It wasn't like, to heal my anxiety and by writing an album I'm now healed.… — Visionist Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
There's no representation. That's why the NBA Players Association was formed, players' unions were formed. That's why those unions were formed -… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always talking about how representation is such an important thing - it's not just a request, it's a requirement - it… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale,… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped - a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
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