Quotes About Coherence

The World feels Complete and Whole, and I, its Child, fit into it seamlessly. Nowhere is there any disjuncture where I ought to remember something but do not, where I ought to understand something but do not.

The World feels complete and whole, and I, its Child, fit into it seamlessly.

Two halves of the same mind, working at full speed, in perfect coordination.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

und kein einzelner Ton für sich macht eine Disharmonie aus.

Finally, Vienna was the only city in the world in which artists and intellectuals made no attempt to revolt against the bourgeois élite. On the contrary, they remained for a long time perfectly integrated with it. Together they formed a coherent and complete stratum of society in which everyone knew everyone else, and all were united in cultivating 'art for art's sake'.

Believe it, dude. But even if Ari and I are mistaken we are neither confused nor confusing. There is nothing inconsistent or incoherent about my definitions, nor do they contradict ordinary usage. A libertarian or anybody else who can't understand what I'm saying is either playing dumb or he really is. People who are maybe not even half-educated understand what I say about work.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Therefore, on hearing His words let no one say either: "These are not Christ's words," or "These are not my words." On the contrary, if he knows that he is in the body of Christ, let him say: "These are both Christ's words and my words." Say nothing without Him, and He will say nothing without thee. We must not consider ourselves as strangers to Christ, or look upon ourselves as other than Himself.

The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.

One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole.

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

Information that fits with everything else we know has a leg up on feeling true. Just

But as with all such occurrences—those destined to be recounted not only in the immediate aftermath but for many years to come—time seemed compressed; it is a common error of memory to impose upon such events the coherence of a concentrated narrative, beginning with the assignment of a specific interval of time. That season. That year.

The Work is to bring the outer and the inner into harmony. (p. 103)