True Relation Quotes:

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

- Unknown

topic: Love, Relationship, I Miss You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

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

topic: Relationship, Thinking, Feel Good, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Strong Long Distance Relationship

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

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

topic: Together, May, Littles, True Relation

[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

topic: Ignorance, Science, Order, True Relation

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

- Winston Churchill

topic: World, Canada, Canada Funny, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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

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

topic: Children, Father, Agency, Infinite Life, True Relation

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

topic: Friends, Tears, Together, True Relation

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

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

topic: Honesty, Eye, Men, True Relation

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

topic: War, Men, Soldier, Fatherland, True Relation