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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about politics

Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us: it rusts iron and ripens corn.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, force, action

I appreciate words, and I appreciate acting, so combining those elements into a film is the ultimate act of appreciation.

Quote by Sean Penn about word, film

The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, world, dream, death, nothing, life

For a world of opposites to exist, it’s necessary to have at least two elements that generate the opposition between them. Could we talk about a world without opposites? We certainly can’t, just as well as we couldn’t talk about a world without...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about world

More than this, it is well-known from our own experience of our senses that we cannot speak of a reference without a referent or a reference. In any reference there must be two or more elements, as in any dream there must be another world from...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about experience, dream, contentment, world

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of...

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about opinion, origin, question, infinite, reason

True patriotism doesn't only consist in loving an ideal country, but - in loving, studying and working for the real elements of the country that are its land, community, people and all their wealth.

Quote by Bolesław Prus about homeland, country, patriotism, wealth, ideal, real estate, people

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements, complexes of sensations make up bodies.

Quote by Ernst Mach about childhood

The elements are still four: Water, Air, Fire, Earth, and I among them, pleasing them...!

Quote by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about aphorisms, water, air, earth, fire, fire brigade

I used to like dreaming – with summer`s elements!

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity