I Quotes
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“In relation to [ethics as a pursuit of desire], we should mention yet another version of this 'path of passivity', which consists in trying to extort from the Other the 'right answer' . Here, the subject wants the Other to choose for him. For such a subject, the Other always appears in the form of some other person. One could say that this subject aims at elevating some small other to the rank of the (big) Other. The subject spends his life imposing choices upon others, reminding them that they are free individuals who must know what they really want. To take an example: in the case of a love affair that does not suit him any more, such a subject will never break it up, he will delegate this decision to the other. He will play the honest one, he will admit that he is cheating, that he is indeed weak and that apparently he is not up to a real relationship. He will tell the other: 'There, these are the facts, this is how I am, I'm laying myself bare before you - what more can I do? - and now it's your turn to make a decision, to make your choice. ' And if this other decides to leave, she leaves precisely as the (big) Other. We might even say that all the activity of such a subject is leading towards this scene of a miraculous metamorphosis of the other into the Other (who knows what she wants or does not want, and acts accordingly).”
Source: Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan
“In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.”
“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”
Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth
“In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.”
“In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.”
“In relation to the question of hope, I think the only hope we have is hope against hope. We hope for a better world. But of course we can do better than just hope.”
Source: Impossible Objects
“In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.”
“In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.”
“In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.”
“In relations, some people all of sudden start playing games, and they don't even give you time to warm up or practice and they say, they won because they played well.
Hehh Thats Cheating Man!”
“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.”
“In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!”
“In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.”
Source: Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.”
“In relationship you gotta have friendship because if you don't, even if things may seem perfect in the beginning, times like this when you are married and you have a kid, you have to still be able to have that spunk, that sass, that fun, and that friendship. Because yeah, jumping into something so quickly can very much turn sour very very fast.”
“In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.”
“In relationships it is best to assume nothing.”
Source: Chicken pox for the soul
“In relationships, learn to strike a balance; so compromise enough to make your partner happy, but never so much so that you no longer recognize yourself in the mirror.”
“In relationships, there are no beginning and no end.”
“In relationships, there is a very thin line between controlling and supporting.”
Source: Quantraz
“In relationships, we first want to be understood and then we want to be discovered one layer at a time till eternity.”
“In relationships, when a person gets angry, it is really just hurt in disguise. So men, consider this the next time the woman you are with gets angry with you. She is most likely just hurt and needs you to hold her and reassure her.”
Source: Relationships
“In relationships, you cannot give to another that which they need, you can only share who you are.”
“In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.”
“In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.”
Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order
“In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
“In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination”
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.”
“In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.”
“In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.”
“In religion, when is it considered that 'One has Known'? When not only does the adverse internal state of being that hurts oneself and others (raudradhyan) not arise, but also the slightest resultant effect of raudradhyan does not arise, to the extent that one does not even come across such a circumstance!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The voice of conscience, which is our internal moral judge, can serve as a ‘guiding thread’ (Leitfaden) in matters of doubt.”
Source: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
“In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.”
“In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”
“In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.”
“In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.”
“In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?”
“In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.”
“In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.”
“In religions, the idea often takes the subject's place. The idea becomes the subject itself. Since this is impossible, human words are used as the words of “God,” which serves as “proof” that God said them. In this way, human words, sold as God’s words, cannot be questioned and are “proof” of God’s existence. That’s the idea that takes the place of the subject.
Everything would be easier if this were the only problem relating to God and philosophical inquiries about God. The problem is much more complicated because wherever we turn, we either find logical fallacies, misusage of language, or inadequate comparisons to try to make a statement, to try to oppose and deny the other side's argument and prove the “truth,” which usually turns out only to be our “truth,” our view and not the objective truth. We can find this among believers, atheists, and agnostics when the idea avoids or bypasses the subject in a real sense.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.”
“In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)”
Source: Warranted Christian Belief
“In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.”
“In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.”
Source: The Silver Stallion