Parallelism Quotes:

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

- Henry Adams

topic: Friendship, Two, Three, Inspiring Friends, One Friend

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Real, Two, Community, One Friend, Parallelism

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Mind, Substance, Denial, Causation, Parallelism

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

topic: Success, Humility, Eye, Parallelism

Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.

- Asher Peres

source: "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

topic: Book, Intellectual, Principles, Inner Life, Parallelism

The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.

- Hans Reichenbach

source: "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.

topic: Mean, Doe, Congruence, Parallelism

Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who just worked for four years on Terrence Malick's films. He did a lot of conceptual work to make the soundscapes in the jungle have this surreal quality, to blend these two films because a lot of the images are about this parallelism between the movies. The sound was very integral to fusing everything.

- Sam Pressman

topic: Years, Two, Quality, Parallelism