Home / Topics / Relation Quotes

Relation Quotes

Browse 2642 quotes about Relation.

Relation Quotes

“There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”

Mind Dream Reality Chance Capable Illusion Relation Fantastic Primaries Grasping

Author:Louis Aragon

“Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.”

Individual Cases Information Baby Ten Capable Relation Add Ancient Extremes Remarkable Portraits Symbolic Accuracy

Author:George Sarton

“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?”

Men Capable Relation Invisible Visible Exterior Physiognomy

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.”

Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”

Way White Attitude Color Citizens Capable Relation South Tolerance Race Relations Crossroads

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.”

May Decision Situation Leader Style Needed Capable Relation Supportive

Author:John W. Gardner

“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Real Facts Accepting Capable Connections Relation Series Crowds Objectives Logical Impressed Subjective

Author:Gustave Le Bon

“Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”

Knows Believe Enough Faces Capable Relation Your Face Believe In Me Scruples Frankness Mrs Bennet

Author:Jane Austen

“The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.”

Type Capable Relation Oneself

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”

Men Heart Long Moments Character Certain Common Brain Duty Birth Exercise Capable Training Conscious Function Relation Instruments Patient Supreme Internals Organs Liver Discharge

Author:Ray V. Pierce

“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.”

Ifs Men Body Values Courses Animal Produce Personality Higher Discipline Capable Relation Scales Backgrounds Excellent Urges Faculty Progressive Display Appreciated Physical Body

Author:J. C. Kumarappa

“The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

Source: James Madison's