Relation Quotations | Page 4

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God .

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

The market's performance is a reflection of uncertainties over the energy rationing, and in relation to the hike in interest rates.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds ...

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

Notably, it was only possible [ negotiating on the Tarabarov Island], and this is very important, due to the high level of trust Russia and China reached in their relations by that time. If we reach the same level of trust with Japan, we might be able to reach certain compromises.

Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.

The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.

Unfortunately, the relations between the United Kingdom and Russia have not developed in the best possible way; however, it has never been our fault. It was not we who decided to discontinue relations with the United Kingdom; it was the UK who preferred to "freeze" our bilateral contacts in various fields.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations[ with Germany].

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation of love is complete. In love the sense of difference

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

... we part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and

Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

It has nothing to do with any lawsuit, ... There is no relation whatsoever.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.