#relation

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#fooled #must #nature #over #precedence

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ↗

— David Bohm

#actual process #attention #careful #further #itself

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ↗

— Epicurus

#adversity #being #being happy #challenging #courage

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#capable #career #days #doing #emotionally

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #history #however #into

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#before #ever #foundation #intensively #matter

By and large my relations with the US were good. ↗

— Hans Blix

#large #relations #us #were

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#benefit #career #crowd #difficult #envisioned