Quotes About Coherence

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

The symbolic order thrives on the deprivation of the subjects belonging to it: it creates a bond of lack. In this way, prohibition works to create coherence within society. The prohibition of enjoyment holds the social order together through the shared dissatisfaction it produces.

In my experience what goes on inside us is reflected on the outside, and vice versa. Perhaps they are two aspects of the same thing. You can either clean up your act in what we think of as the real world and this will clarify what is within, or you can work from the other direction.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.

The fact that the doctrine makes perfect sense even though Epiphanius keeps finding it incoherent suggests that he is giving a faithful account of it.

I miei pensieri erano come mercurio... scivolavano sempre via, prima che potessi afferrarli o sagomarli in forma coerente.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right.

five severed fingers do not make a hand

Thought and action must never part company.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

I came to see myself as growing out of the earth like the other native animals and plants. I saw my body and my daily motions as brief coherences and articulations of the energy of the place, which would fall back into it like leaves in the autumn.

The question stands and waits, to be asked and asked, never finally to be answered, which he believes affirms a kind of faith. The world is fitted together, is held in its place in the great sky, has held together so far, through the worst of human damage so far, and by no human's power to save or make or know. That he can sometimes fit a mere poem's parts together is his fallback position, a sign of his limits, his formal ignorance, his faith in the great coherence.

I saw my body and my daily motions as brief coherences and articulations of the energy of the place, which would fall back into it like leaves in the autumn.

centripetal organization unifying a culture in all its phases into a unique, coherent, and artistic form; the other a period of centrifugal disorganization in which creed and culture decompose in division and criticism, and end in a chaos of individualism, skepticism, and artistic aberrations.

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths

Nella nostra società individualista, e quindi lacerata e incoerente, abbiamo dimenticato il passato e non attribuiamo importanza se non all'effimero. Per questo corriamo verso la catastrofe, e le nuove tecnologie, contrariamente all'opinione diffusa, non ci salveranno affatto. La religione è l'oppio dei popoli, Internet è la sua eroina.