True Relation Quotes

• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

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  Love, Relationship, I Miss You

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• It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

  Haruki Murakami

  Relationship, Distance, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 11, 2013

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• Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place them in their true relations, and recognize the thought that binds them together.

  Louis Agassiz

  Together, May, Littles

  Louis Agassiz (1870). “Methods of Study in Natural History”, p.202

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• [Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Ignorance, Science, Errors

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Ocean, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Children, Father, Oneness

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Friends, Together Again, Tears

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.593, e-artnow

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• But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.94

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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Men, Soldier

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