Recognition Quotes

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. — John O'Donohue
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a… — John O'Donohue
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No… — Malcolm X
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. — Ayn Rand
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege. — Bell Hooks
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm… — Joseph Campbell
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in… — Harold Brodkey
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. — Donna Tartt
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came… — Evelyn Waugh
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my… — Irvine Welsh
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity.… — Vasily Grossman
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Freedom is the recognition of contingency. — Richard Rorty
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. — Leo Tolstoy
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? — T.H. White

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