81 Metaphors for relation

The spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest; and if we would not forego all that is valuable in our lot, we must continually face some other person, eye to eye, and wrestle a fall whether in love or enmity.

But the mother was a creator of a home; her relation with her children was the most beautiful I have ever seen; even a dull and commonplace man was lifted up and enabled to do good work for souls, by the atmosphere which this woman created; every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the key-note of the day; and it always rang clear.

In other words, relations are purely conceptual objects, and the sensational life as such cannot relate itself together.

The relation of states one with another are the product of civilisation, and need an at least rudimentarily political brain to grasp them.

I particularly wish the student to be clear on this point, that where two factors are projected from a common source their relation to each other becomes an absolute fact in respect of the factors themselves, notwithstanding that the power of changing that relation by substituting a different projection must necessarily always continue to reside in the originating source.

And the relation itself, in which slavery consists, is the work of human hands.

"Domestic institutions" are limited to the family The relation between master and slave and a few others are "domestic institutions," and are entirely distinct from institutions of a political character.

The relation of words is their reference to other words, or their dependence according to the sense.

These relations are both trees and shrubs, and the lilac, for instance, is one of them.

The Scottish skeptic had said that the necessary bond between cause and effect can neither be perceived nor logically demonstrated; that, therefore, the relation of causality is an idea which wewith what right?add to perceived succession in time.

The intimate relation into which sensibility and understanding are brought is an instance of this from the theory of knowledge.

The teaching, I am sure, is very inefficient as teaching, and I well know that the relation between teacher and taught is not a good moral discipline to either.

But relations were no use.

His domestic relations in Virginia were a strange intermixture of good and bad.

The only direct relation with marine affairs is the important manufacture of fishing nets and "lines" for which Bridport has been noted for many years.

If the number of feet fallen through in one second be taken as unity, then the relation of the times to the spaces will be as follows: Number of seconds | 1| 2|

I must then tell you that the relations between you and Lady Constance are a source of anxiety to her brother.

Now, the relation that has the least root in matter is undoubtedly that airy one of friendship; and hence, I suppose, it is that good talk most commonly arises among friends.

Their relation was no unhappiness to him; he thought, I dare say, if he thought at all, that it was a natural one.

To know all this truth is a theoretic achievement, indeed, but it is a narrow one; for the relations between conceptual objects as such are only the static ones of bare comparison, as difference or sameness, congruity or contradiction, inclusion or exclusion.

Our relation to it, whether on the scale of the individual or the universal, is the key to all that we are or ever can be.

But whatever the relation between Christianity and war, there can be no question of the relation between Christianity and hatred.

If it finds that their relation to a common Father is the fundamental fact of their existence, then it would know that religion is at the heart of it, and that right relations with God are the spring and source of right relations with men.

In what does God possess character, feelings, relations to us?all unanswerable questions, but the very entertainment of which is an excitement of the reason, and throws us upon the thought of what there is behind the veil.

The relation of Napoleon's warfare against Hayti and Toussaint to the great Continental struggle, and the position he assigns it as the turning point of that greater contest, is perhaps the most important of these.

81 Metaphors for  relation