Famous quotes containing the words relation and/or defined:
“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)