Quotes About Interdependence

Verflechtung(interweaving, entanglement with others). Means finally: We are not one side of the wall but two. And finally: We are not perspectives upon a surveyor's plan (for then one would not understand substitution). We are two in one Being. Make a chapter in my book: Being and Memory (memory as a particular case of inter-being).

Relations with the other are always complicated...Even if we make an effort to respect the autonomy of the other, even if we grant the other freedom, the other will never feel completely free since he receives his freedom in a partnership.

Human beings are also trundled-human being--if we could open us, we would find all the others, as in Russion dolls, or rather less well-ordered, in a state of indivision.

In a soap bubble as in an organism, what happens at each point is determined by what happens at all the others.

Courage consists in being reliant on oneself and others to the extent that, irrespective of differences in physical and social circumstance, all manifest in their behaviour and their relationships that very same spark which makes us recognise them, which makes us crave their assent or their criticism, the spark which means we share a common fate.

Self and other are not two distinct substances...We are both, other and self, two variables of the same system.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three.

Pero estamos todos entrelazados, como las hebras de un trozo de tela, y nos apoyamos mutuamente, por suerte o por desgracia.

Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives.

the Siamese-twinship of marriage

They crossed the Smith campus in clusters, these girls, as though they might simply tip over if forced to stand alone.

Two people, tightly twined, can begin to convince themselves of anything. There's reality and then there's the shared experience, which feels so much more real. Two people, needing each other, can come to believe things. Can come to believe wanting something was the same as making it happen. That it wasn't a choice, in the end, but the right thing to do, the fulfillment of some deeper calling.

We help others only as much as they let us.

Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry. Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

We wonder of the nature and the nature wonders of us!

The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Squanto engineered the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers and it was because of his help that an English-speaking society eventually prevailed there. Their own language had saved them.