Quotes About Unity

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

When they were all ready, Halpern again counted them in, and the lyrical clarinet line floated over the strings and, Max felt, out of the open window and on, out and out over the hot, dusty July city like summer rain.

The sooner men learn to make companions and equals of their wives and not subordinates, the sooner the marriage relation will be one of harmony.

It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper.

La luna non è che il complemento della terra, il suo rovescio speculare, il luogo dove s'aduna tutto ciò che sulla terra si perde.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One day there will be no Nature, no matter, no body, at least none such as to separate man from God: then there will be only God[.]

W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.

If all men were absolutely alike, … a single man would have achieved the end of the species.

This [love] ought to be a furnace that should melt us all into one heart, and should create such a fervour in us … that we should heartily love each other.' But that which in the truth of religion is the essence of the fable, is to the religious consciousness only the moral of the fable, a collateral thing.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

You know that the Greeks used to believe that people were made up of two heads and two bodies. But Zeus was afraid of how powerful that could be, so he split people in two. That way, instead of causing trouble for him, they spent the rest of their lives trying to find their other half.

She belonged to me. She was all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. Her hand, it fit mine.

it's quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them? Or perhaps none of the three can exist without the other. Perhaps without this magical combination, a story would be nothing more than words on a page.

Oh, darling, that's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.

Where there is support, there is no grief.

the way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy.