Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As much as I think that in the future we won't need labels, at the moment they're really important. So I'm making… — Keiynan Lonsdale 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
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
I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism,… — Angela Davis 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
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
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
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
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
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration… — Heinz Pagels 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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