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“All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.”

Kind Soul Community Subjects Aspect All Things Relation Various Units Qualifications

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.”

Ifs Should Together Courses Wonder Tears Friends Aspect Relation Monsters Frightened Patches Microscopes Together Again True Relation

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.”

People Littles Matter States United Deals Race United States Racism Aspect Relation Improvement Great Men Race Relations

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”

Feels Writing Mean Poetry Literature Consciousness Subjects Style Strange Materials Integrity Scene Perception Aspect Relation Creator Description Soulful Absorption Articulation

Author:Patricia Hampl

“To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.”

World Looks Turns Aspect Relation Rational Mutual

Book:Reading Hegel: The Introductions

Source: Reading Hegel: The Introductions

“Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.”

Two Night Left President Race Aspect Relation Wings Relief President Obama Smooth Misunderstanding Resorts Hostility Race Relations Worldview Fables Polished Left Wing

Author:Mona Charen

“I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.”

Thinking Certain My Own Aspect Relation Schizophrenic

Author:Hershel Shanks

“I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.”

Thinking Important Language Social Communication Aspect Relation Establishment Interaction Mislead Social Relations

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first, that such individuals would be held accountable if international law was applied without regard to geopolitics, and second, that there is enough ambiguity about the reach of UJ that it inhibits such individuals and conveys an impression of de facto criminality.”

“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.”

Ifs Feels Whole Darkness Struggle Fate Depends Conscious Aspect Relation Absurd This Life Opposition Convince Perpetual Revolt Equilibrium

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.”

Way Humans Made Values Politics Social Economy Activity Aspect Tools Relation Valuable Productive Endeavour Market Economy Social Relations

Book:What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Source: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

“The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.”

“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”

Humans Given Social Nature Powerful Principles Power Human Nature Products Aspect Relation Psychological Remove Barriers Manipulation Coercion Social Relations

Author:Noam Chomsky