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Quotes About Totality

The problem with modern society, Sartre warned, was that it wants everyone to be the same, that is, to be bourgeois. "In fact," Sartre concluded, "one becomes bourgeois by choosing, once and for all, the analytical vision of the world, which tries to impose itself upon every man," capitalist or Communist, eastern or western, black or white.34 Instead, man in the postmodern age must look for a true individualism, the product of what Sartre calls his total situation
~ Arthur Herman
Son unos pueblos a los que Dios ha distinguido particularmente con la turbulencia y la ignorancia, y a los que en su totalidad ha marcado con la hostilidad y la violencia. Tela.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."26
~ Gary R. Renard
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
~ The truth is the whole.
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.
~ Morris Kline
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
~ Aristotle
Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.
~ Aristotle
Le nom, c'est ma présence totale rassemblée magiquement dans l'objet.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
~ Alan Watts
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
~ Abraham Kuyper
All things are from the whole, and the whole is from all things.
~ John Toland
Fraction does not exist in Nature, where what you call a fragment is a finished whole.
~ balzac honore de vi
Is not the fraction which you know, in relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity?
~ balzac honore de xv
And as we perceive that virtue assumes a multitude of diverse forms, this variety discovered in intelligent beings convinces us that the most perfect Being is He who unites in Himself the greatest number, or the sum total, of all these perfections.
~ baring gould sabine vi
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
~ Georges Bataille
This is why classical thought concerning structure could say that the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it. The center is at the center of the totality, and yet, since the center does not belong to the totality (is not part of the totality), the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Will is the lord of all worlds: everything belongs to it, and therefore no one single thing can ever give it satisfaction, but only the whole, which is endless.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - total passion for the total height - you're incapable of anything less.
~ Ayn Rand
Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.
~ Stephen Hawking
He wrote: A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way. Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.
~ Stephen Kendrick
His body was just part of the whole package
~ Jojo Moyes
86. [Our aim is] neither to achieve the impossible, even by force, nor to maintain a theory which is in all respects similar either to our discussions on the ways of life or to our clarifications of other questions in physics, such as the thesis that the totality [of things] consists of bodies and intangible nature, and that the elements are atomic, and all such things as are consistent with the phenomena in only one way. This
~ Epicurus
When you take a step back and look at the totality of Gov. Newsom's decisions, time and again California found itself under the nation's toughest lockdowns - while also experiencing the worst COVID-19 rates. Gov. Newsom gave us the worst of both worlds during this pandemic.
~ Kevin Faulconer
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
~ Andres Serrano