Relation Quotes

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein
We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or… — William Butler Yeats
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge… — George Eliot
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"… — Alan Watts
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because Iâ€™m not the Gail Wynand youâ€™d heard about. You see, I love you.… — Ayn Rand
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation… — Christopher Ryan
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of… — Aldous Huxley
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice… — Milan Kundera
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.â€¦ The people can never understand why the President does not use… — Harry S. Truman
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish… — William S. Burroughs
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like… — Erving Goffman
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we… — Oscar Wilde

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