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Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
Some are more equal than others.
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Everything is comprehended in comparison.
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together.
We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
idiosyncrasy than
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
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There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity.
The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors.
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
man that confirmed they were similar
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.
What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.
Comparisons are odious.
Everything is the same, they just change the name ... or the order of magnitude.
I think comparisons are odious.
All meaning comes from analogies.
Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self.
One is but a shade of the other.
There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.
No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.
Analogy pervades all our thinking,
He is the same, but everything is different.-- John Fowles
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
Equality is a mortuary word.
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
Nothing is the same.
The more the change, the more it is the same thing.
Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.
We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
We are more alike than we are unalike!" That
And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it."
"Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
Now we are even.
To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
difference is trampled under foot and conformity is elevated to a virtue
Comparison leads to violence.
Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas.
Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.
The sole equality on earth is death.
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made ... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail.
To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
All propositions are of equal value.
Like associates with like.
Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference.
Indifference is a quarantined difference.
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference
Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
DIFFERENT NOT LESS
Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.
Comparing infinities is a treacherous business
We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.
Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?
And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Opposites attract, but similarities bind.
Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.
We're like lightning and thunder, inherently different but alike enough to share the same sky.
we're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount.
All intimacies are based on differences.
in the same way a person is the same individual as a boy and
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Equality is humanity.
Let's part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth
We are alike," he said, "as no one else is, as no one else will ever be."
The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.
There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.
Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Sameness is what marketers want us to want.
Death renders all equal.