Liquid Mirror

Famous quotes containing the words liquid and/or mirror:

“While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.