Quotes About Integration

My idea is entirely different. I think we should mix all the species together and scatter them worldwide, completely doing away with their uneven distribution. This would give nature a full palette to work with as it establishes a new balance given the current conditions. I call this the Second Genesis.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

I feel we need to stop seeing mental and physical health as either/or and more as a both/and situation. There is no difference. We are mental. We are physical. We are not split up into unrelated sections. We are not an existential department store. We are everything at once.

And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar.

Mental health is intricately related to the whole body. And the whole body is intricately related to mental health. You can't draw a line between a body and a mind any more than you can draw a line between oceans.

Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.

Fundamental science is theoretical knowledge, while technology is utilitarian knowledge and contemplative science is liberating knowledge. They can thus complete each other without any conflict.

Philosophy: circles that include one another.

Freedom exists in contact with the world, not outside it.

We are in the world, mingled with it, compromised with it.

Physical laws do not furnish an explanation of the structures, they represent an explanation within the structures. They express the least integrated structures, those in which the simple relations of function to variable can be established. They are already becoming inadequate in the 'acausal' domain of modern physics.

I do not believe that what one gives to the sciences is taken from philosophy.

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.

Not only parallel problems: vision and its signification, speech and its signification--but a single problem: the visible and poetic signified are intertwined; poetry, speech of things (Valéry)... This is not to lose interest in the world; it is to find access through intermixing, through an imaginary within us that welcomes it and makes it at home. In a sense, it discovers it.

We are entirely enclosed in our time and institutions, we can fight against it only with it, indirectly, from the inside.

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.

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.

With psychoanalysis mind passes into body, as inversely, body passes into mind.

My clothes can become appendages of my body.

Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.