Representations Quotes
62 quotes by 55 authors
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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 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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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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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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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
— Otto Dix
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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property…
— Clarence Darrow
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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with…
— Clarence Darrow
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I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
— Hugh Hopper
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings…
— Michel de Certeau
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe.…
— Brooke Westcott
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None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the…
— Norman Buckley
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock…
— Maria Popova
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If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends…
— Marvin Minsky
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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience,…
— Craig Lucas
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The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
— Steven Weinberg
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