Relation Quotes

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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relationâ€”and yours tooâ€”to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by… — David Graeber
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so… — Charles Darwin
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:… — Sigmund Freud
You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have… — Gena Showalter
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout… — Leo Tolstoy
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. — George Eliot
...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyraâ€™s Oxford and Willâ€™s would… — Philip Pullman
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. — Man Ray
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naÃ¯ve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich.… — Cheryl Strayed
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick… — Alfie Kohn
Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotteâ€™s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was… — Meg Waite Clayton
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote
Thought as suchâ€¦ is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its… — Theodor Adorno
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. — Susan Sontag
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of… — Marcus Aurelius
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself,… — Adrienne Rich

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