Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Votes: 7
Leonardo da VinciIgnorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. Votes: 4
James F. CooperBut every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. Votes: 4
Martin HeideggerAccording to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. Votes: 4
Roy Blount, Jr.There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. Votes: 4
Richard MasurSometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life. Votes: 4
Linda VesterFor, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Votes: 4
Georg SimmelThe land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations Votes: 3
Aldo LeopoldEvery relation need adjustments to survive, but those dies where one compromise.. Votes: 3
Debolina BhawalNothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaLiberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. Votes: 3
Christian Nestell BoveeA thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society. Votes: 3
Ian HarrisThe adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. Votes: 3
Anthony BurgessOur spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. Votes: 3
Paul TwitchellThere is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. Votes: 3
Karl MarxINTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceFor Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. Votes: 3
Peter SchjeldahlOur health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? Votes: 3
Fulton J. SheenThe depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience. Votes: 3
Robert MonroeArtificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. Votes: 3
David ParnasThe business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. Votes: 3
D. H. LawrenceNothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life Votes: 3
Charles DarwinI like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. Votes: 3
Antoine PredockWe have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleDeath fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth. Votes: 3
John Quincy AdamsFootball: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Votes: 3
Elbert HubbardPhotography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. Votes: 3
Judith ButlerUnderstanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. Votes: 3
P.D. OuspenskyIf nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors. Votes: 3
Felix FrankfurterThis impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind. Votes: 3
Geshe Kelsang GyatsoThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely. Votes: 3
William JamesI am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. Votes: 3
Joanna NewsomMusic truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church. Votes: 3
Richard WagnerI do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives. Votes: 3
Vivek ShrayaWe begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Votes: 3
Edmund BurkeI'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything. Votes: 3
John OliverTrust is the fuel to a relation, the more it is- the far the relation moves.. Votes: 3
Debolina BhawalThe results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate. Votes: 3
Ayman NourNew Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. Votes: 3
Jenny ShipleyThe greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonCookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. Votes: 3
Andrei CodrescuUnreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself. Votes: 3
Michel FoucaultHeroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleEvery relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. Votes: 3
Orville DeweyThe arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL. Votes: 3
Michael LewisNothing gives a sensation better than a beer! Nothing builds a relation better than a beer! Votes: 3
Anshul DubeyI'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors. Votes: 3
Jessica ChastainI think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible. Votes: 3
Hershel Shanksrationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. Votes: 3
John Forbes NashI think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. Votes: 3
Anthony Holdenthe best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation. Votes: 3
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. Votes: 3
Mary McCarthyThe spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. Votes: 3
Guy DebordThey tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Votes: 3
Arthur HelpsThe charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." Votes: 3
Marcel Prousthis smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth ... Votes: 3
Rebecca WestThe artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. Votes: 3
Piet MondrianThe relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire. Votes: 3
Mata AmritanandamayiThe nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Votes: 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka. Votes: 3
Isaac Bashevis SingerYou do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. Votes: 3
John SearleWe never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Votes: 3
John BergerIn our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God. Votes: 3
Jessi ColterUse all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. Votes: 3
Bill MollisonWhat I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have. Votes: 3
Robert BlyConversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. Votes: 3
Alice Duer MillerI mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world. Votes: 3
Paul LaffoleyThe secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonI'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality. Votes: 3
Matthea HarveyDo remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. Votes: 3
Henri MatisseA writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. Votes: 3
Mavis GallantTo be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Votes: 3
C. S. LewisLove alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved. Votes: 3
Pope Benedict XVIThe most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world. Votes: 3
Rupert SheldrakeI will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. Votes: 3
David Livingstone