Representation Quotes
293 quotes by 258 authors
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning…
— Aristotle
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by…
— Abigail Adams
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for…
— Tom Clancy
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity…
— Diablo Cody
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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes…
— Pedro Almodovar
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How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are…
— Ron Wyden
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,…
— Phillip Lopate
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As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other;…
— Charles Hodge
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
— Fletcher Knebel
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the…
— Immanuel Kant
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves…
— Emile Durkheim
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Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed…
— Francois Jacob
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I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction.…
— Arthur Eddington
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
— Gerhard Richter
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Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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