Representation Quotes

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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
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
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformitÃ©] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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