Relation Quotations | Page 5

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

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.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.