Embodiment Quotes

• Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

  

  William Blackstone
  • People
  • Law
  • Moral

• Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Photography

• My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

  

  William Morris
  • Dream
  • Design
  • Form

• Pierre Trudeau, the embodiment of the dream of a just society, has left us.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Dream
  • Embodiment
  • Pierre Trudeau

• The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Free
  • Law
  • Moral

• I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

  

  Bobby Charlton
  • Football
  • Embodiment
  • Paul Scholes

• Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • Good
  • Long
  • Purpose

• The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • True
  • Law
  • Faults

• Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would no longer require any crude embodiment. Lights, words, yes even thoughts would be sufficient.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Necromancy

• That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Force
  • Human Reason
  • Embodiment

• How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Experiment
  • Embodiment

• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  

  Gertrud von Le Fort
  • Destiny
  • Horror
  • Historic

• What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Doe
  • Labels
  • Charlie

• I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Reality
  • Language