#cog

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#certain #desires #dictatorship #does #ego

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#familiar #into #itself #looking #painting

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#biological #birth #broad #constantly #death

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ↗

— Odilon Redon

#art lies #basis #felt #i #lies

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#been #cases #despite #failures #first

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#different #every #everyone #important #know

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. ↗

— Ann Richards

#grief #i #i think #ok #recognize

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#audience #because #believable #characters #draw

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#ethnic #game #maintain #must #national

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#concept #couples #disgrace #eyes #had