Quotes About Unity

What exists are not separated animals, but an inter-animality.

There is already a kind of presence of the other in me.

The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship

The doctrine cannot receive minorities, but neither can it reject them, because minorities are the salt of the Earth!

If at the center and so to speak the kernel of Being there is an infinite infinite, every partial being directly or indirectly presupposes it, and is in return really or eminently contained in it. All the relationships we can have to Being must be simultaneously founded upon it.

There is an adherence, a strange kinship between the human and the animal...of the animal as variant of humanity and of humanity as variant of animality.

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension.

Production: not a tree, but bushes of several roots mixed together.

The 'healthy' man is not so much the one who has eliminated his contradictions as the one who makes use of them and drags them into his vital labors.

In the horizon, there is no subject and object. We are there like the others; we are, like the others, drawn out of this horizonal being, divergences or variants in relation to it.

The unity of the object does not lie behind its qualities, but is reaffirmed by each one of them: each of its qualities is the whole. Cézanne said that you should be able to paint the smell of trees.

This colored surface holds itself together; it does not receive its unity from our representation or from a representation of its own.

I bring the match near, I light a flimsy piece of paper, and, behold, my gesture receives inspired help from the things around, as if the chimney and the dry wood had been waiting for me to set the light, or as though the match had been nothing but a magic incantation, a call of like to like answered beyond all imagination.

I am receiving and giving in the same gesture.

In a unified whole of this kind, the learned parts of a language have an immediate value as a whole, and progress is made less by addition and juxtaposition than by the internal articulation of a function which is in its own way already complete.

Alg?m görsel, dokunsal ve i?itsel verilerin toplam? de?ildir. Bütün varl???mla, bütünlüklü bir ?ekilde alg?alr?m: Ayn? anda tüm duygular?ma konu?an biricik bir yap?y?, biricik bir varl?k biçimini kavrar?m.

We are the parents of a Nature of which we are also the children

Circularity--a dangerous word. Circularity of Heraclitus, yes: to go in one direction is truly to go in the other. A thick identity there, which truly contains difference.

Verflechtung(interweaving, entanglement with others). Means finally: We are not one side of the wall but two. And finally: We are not perspectives upon a surveyor's plan (for then one would not understand substitution). We are two in one Being. Make a chapter in my book: Being and Memory (memory as a particular case of inter-being).

Our glances are not "acts of consciousness," each of which claims an invariable priority, but openings of our flesh which are immediately filled by the universal flesh of the world.

Human beings are also trundled-human being--if we could open us, we would find all the others, as in Russion dolls, or rather less well-ordered, in a state of indivision.

Empathy makes it that there is "the one" and not "the same.

In a soap bubble as in an organism, what happens at each point is determined by what happens at all the others.

The world, in those of its sectors which realize a structure, is comparable to a symphony.