Relation Quotes

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

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?

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

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

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

I did not have textual relations with that server.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

Everything about art has become problematic;
its inner life,
its relation to society,
even its right to exist.

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?