Relation Quotes

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Marriage, Before, Union

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics, Morals

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

Sister, Expression, Annoying

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, True, Keeping

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Risk, Equal

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon

Life, Faith, God

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happy, End

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Yourself, Person

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm

Person, Him, Sense

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Spiritual

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Doubt, Same

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx

Science, Far, Value

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler

Power, Healing, Same

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Today, Reality, Through

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot

Marriage, Sympathy, Either

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Friend, Nearest

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Business, Between

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone

May, Place, Value

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Design, Eyes

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
David Herbert Lawrence

Study, Mankind, Proper

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne

Two, Light, Less

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

May, Him, Often

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau

Life, Design, Ideas

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, Rather, State

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Havelock Ellis

Person, Individual, Relations

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden

Different, Two, America

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
Liam Neeson

Thought, Soul, Acting

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

Reality, Doubt, Between

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James

Fine, Appreciate, Criticize

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger

History, Within, Historical

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