“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.” PeopleMenWellsHappensDifferencesPrinciplesPracticeQuietOfficeStatementsDryThings In Life Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.” FirstsDifficultDifferencesImpossibleEventsMovementObjectsCircumstancesConstantStatementsDataPerceiveRelativeOur RelationshipObserversInitialsSensoryDerivatives Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.” IfsMindLittlesPhilosophyDifferencesWindIntellectualStatementsOperationsIntimateDiscourseComplacency Book:Inner Experience Source: Inner Experience
“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.” PeopleFacesPoliticalDifferencesReligiousIssuesHappeningsStatementsReligious FreedomFraming Author:Pat Condell
“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.” MenWellsMadeTwoCharacterHelpingUsedHoursDifferencesOpinionWatchesExpressionDrawingStatementsMannersCompareClockDistinctionPlatesJohnsonBrighterNeat Author:James Boswell
“The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].” KnowsMenScienceBitsDifferencesMen And WomenLogicMathematicsStatementsBathroomDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:John Allen Paulos
“There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.” ArtBigsDifferencesInformationStatements Author:Yoko Ono
“Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.” SelfSometimesUseAsksDifferencesSocialismStatementsIdeologyLimitationPropagandaCommunistCommandmentsCoercion Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn