Represent Parallel Notions

Famous quotes containing the words represent, parallel and/or notions:

    “All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “If from the earth we came, it was an earth
    That bore us as a part of all the things
    It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
    Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
    Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
    The same. We parallel the mother’s death.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)