Quotes about refers (16 Quotes)




    He who is the servant of a divine Name is the shadow of that Name, his soul is its epiphanic form (mazhar). But in recognizing that this is so the servant does not negate his own existence. There is indeed a hadith concerning the servant who never ceases to move closer to his Lord his Lord says of him 'I am his hearing by which he hears, his eyesight by which he sees... ' This servant does not become what he was not what happens is that the 'luminous shadow' becomes increasingly transparent. Moreover, the possessive adjective 'his' refers explicitly to the reality of the servant or rather presupposes it.


    Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.


    The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.



    It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

    All the divine Names refer to one and the same Named One. But each one of them refers to an essential determination, different from all the rest it is by this individualization that each Name refers to the God who reveals himself to and by the theophanic imagination.

    On being told that the Pentagon has no contingency plan for an invasion from outer space, and refers callers to local authorities. What are we supposed to do, write them a ticket.

    Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.




    Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.



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