Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
Paul Twitchell

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is activity in relation to power.
Francis Parker Yockey

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
Mark Poster

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
Linda Vester

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

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Emil Nolde

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
George H. Mead

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

The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
John Morton

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Helmut Kohl

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
Robert Scheer