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Quotes About Synthesis

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide.
~ Seth Godin
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
~ Edward Abbey
The agranular reticulum functions for the synthesis of lipid substances and for other processes of the cells promoted by intrareticular enzymes.
~ John E Hall
the Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica. These last two alone total a stupefying two million words. They are a monumental fusion of learning and faith, and a reconciliation of ancient philosophy and Christian theology, without parallel even in the works of Saint Augustine. In fact, together they make Aquinas the one Christian thinker whose system can stand beside those of Aristotle and Plato—in part because it is a brilliant synthesis of the best of both thinkers.
~ Arthur Herman
Pico's goal was to dissolve any difference between theology and philosophy, science and literature, art and poetry. All knowledge was One, as aspects of the One: and human beings come uniquely equipped to unravel its final secrets.
~ Arthur Herman
Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.
~ Arthur Koestler
When we direct our eyes looking forward from the corner of the temple in its normal field of vision, the frontal brain is working with analysis (vitarka). But when we spread our ocular awareness from the back corner of the temple, near the ear, the back brain is brought into play and works with synthesis (vicara). He front brain can dismantle because of its powerful penetration. The back brain is holistic and reassembles.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
~ William Ernest Henley
But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everything is all one - that is the beginning and end with you.
~ George Eliot
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
~ Emil Cioran
Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing all of the data points on the map to see how one related to another. By bringing those data points together, a broader picture could be drawn and a strategy developed to counter the existing threat.
~ Todd Young
Sometimes her heart and head are invaded by upheavals, analyses, syntheses, wrenching turmoil, bright hopes, crushed expectations, precipices around which thought wanders shivering and dazed, unable to make sense of anything. (Wartime Notebooks)
~ Marguerite Duras
relato está manifestándose, sintéticamente, una totalización equivalente a la que el todo aspira a representar.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
ilusión de sintetizar lo real, de resumir la vida. Ese apetito debió verse plenamente colmado con Madame Bovary, ejemplo de obra clausurada, de libro-círculo.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Thus, once again, there need be no real contradictions between Druidry and Christianity here.
~ Mark Townsend
Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.
~ Aristotle
He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.
~ Barbara Hall
My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.
~ Sean Scully