Material Usage Variance

Famous quotes containing the words material, usage and/or variance:

    “The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
    —A.J. (Alfred Jules)

    “There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.”
    —Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)