Quotes about Representation

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What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, — Friedrich Nietzsche
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be. — David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title. — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same li — Jane Espenson
The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long — Paolo Bacigalupi
Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later — David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why — Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love
It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid to truly dream is if you ex — W. Kamau Bell, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to — Karl Marx
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves — Paul Haggis
And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost wi — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Choose a leader who will build bridges - not walls. A leader who will promote peace - not wars. A leader who believes in — Mizan Chaudhury
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the lig — Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
These two developments throw light on what is perhaps the most fundamental difference between the Renaissance and all pr — Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts
Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull — Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as m — J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction th — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World