Quotes About Integration

Human knowledge is not a mere collection, but a structure; it is a single body of interrelated cognitions.

The essentialized approach is the opposite of that practiced by today's academic establishment, who reject system-building—that is, broad integration—in favor of the analysis of minutiae. I am as far from today's philosophy departments as an atheist is from the pope or, in more positive terms, as a man who wants to live is from an ascetic writhing in the desert. My explanation of today's philosophers is offered below, in my discussion of the D2 mentality.

I call the Platonic mode "misintegration"—M. I call the Aristotelian mode simply "integration"—I. I call the Kantian mode "disintegration"—D.

Although there are many variants of Plato's system, what makes them the same in regard to integration is their commitment to two fundamental principles. In metaphysics, their principle is supernaturalism. In epistemology, it is rationalism.

To satisfy this need, one must recognize that philosophy is a system of ideas. By its nature as an integrating science, it cannot be a grab bag of isolated issues. All philosophic questions are interrelated. One may not, therefore, raise any such questions at random, without the requisite context. If one tries the random approach, then questions (which one has no means of answering) simply proliferate in all directions.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Everything in some way connects to everything else. Leonardo Da Vinci

Theta sat next to Memphis and watched Mr. and Mrs. Chan laughing about some private joke. They were a mixed couple, and they were happy. No one seemed to be bothering them. But they were also here in the few blocks of Chinatown. What happened when they crossed Canal Street into the rest of the city? What happened when they went out into the rest of the country?

When our lives are divinely ordered, our spirit will direct our soul and mind, which in turn will guide our physical self.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society