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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that. -- Baz Luhrmann
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind. -- Dave Brubeck
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship. -- Deng Ming-Dao
We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future. -- Mitt Romney
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. -- Mark Rothko
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. -- George Meredith
I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits. -- Jason Priestley
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart. -- Bill W.
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. -- Pema Chodron
I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do. -- Shirley Manson
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. -- Marilyn Monroe
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would. -- John Sentamu
Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings. -- Pema Chodron
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver. -- Alain LeRoy Locke
I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background. -- Joan Allen
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper. -- Alfred Molina
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn. -- Will Self
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! -- George Meredith
Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too. -- Jane Smiley
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. -- Greg Boyle
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. -- Kris Kristofferson
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each of whom, when they read my book, feels at home in it. So I write for those readers. It's almost a sense of writing for a specific person, but it's a specific person who I don't know. -- Teju Cole
Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all. -- Henry Spira
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it. -- James Branch Cabell
No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and Matt Busby comes to mind with his wonderful record crowned by the European Cup, but not even Matt would claim the kinship with the fans that Bill enjoyed. He was what football was all about. I can't praise him higher than that. -- Jock Stein
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you. -- Jane Jacobs
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart. -- Khalil Gibran
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Look past our kinship, and towards a romantic relationship! -- Steven L. Sheppard
In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship. -- Cornelius Nepos
When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship, -- Louis Armstrong
I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories -- Desmond Child
The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship. -- Holmes Rolston III
Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. -- Werner Herzog
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook. -- Norman Douglas
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. -- Epicurus
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. -- William Golding
Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level. -- Rick Strassman
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir -- Khaled Hosseini
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. -- Carl Jung
Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live. -- Duane Elgin
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. -- Richard Leakey
I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way. -- George W. Bush
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. -- Henri Matisse
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. -- Terry Tempest Williams
A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. -- Carroll Quigley
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. -- Willa Cather
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature. -- Ross Parmenter
We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen. -- Adrian Tomine
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. -- Theodore Roethke
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship -- Jonathan Haidt
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. -- Abraham Maslow
She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm. -- Alton Tobey
Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends. -- David O. McKay
God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace. -- George Eliot

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