Quotes About Fragmentation

In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.

To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..

Og jeg gikk derfra i et grått bilde, og hørte kanskje en rope navnet mitt like over og like under tretoppene. Men hvordan bevege seg i sitt eget navn når det uavlatelig falt fra hverandre, dag for dag krympet det og ble mindre og mindre og mer og mer puslete.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Division is the precursor of death.

No longer are the riches of the Bible known only to an educated elite. But it has also had negative consequences. It has made possible individualistic interpretation of the Bible; and that, coupled with the elevated status given to the Bible by the Protestant Reformation, has led to the fragmentation of Christianity into a multitude of denominations and sectarian movements, each grounded in different interpretations of the Bible.

You all right? he said again. I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn't belong here. But he existed, he deserved to be alive. I was wishing I could tell him how to change so he could get there, the place where I was. Yes, I said. I touched him on the arm with my hand. My hand touched his arm. Hand touched arm. Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole.

From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not to unification but to fragmentation. It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

Woman's life today is tending more and more toward ... 'Zerrissenheit'--torn to pieces-hood. She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be shattered into a thousand pieces.

This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not to unification but to fragmentation. It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

She had fallen into particles over the course of a single evening.

The mass market is dying. There is no longer one best song or one best kind of coffee. Now there are a million micromarkets, but each micromarket still has a best.

The mass market is dying. There is no longer one best song or one best kind of coffee. Now there are a million micromarkets, but each micromarket still has a best. If your micromarket is "organic markets in Tulsa," then that's your world. And being the best in that world is the place to be.

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

Hearing this I felt myself splitting away from myself, something I've been doing for years, a false calm that floated somewhere above my real mind, which I could sit inside when dealing with my mother.

These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.

nada que es completo en sí mismo es más fuerte cuando se divide.

Since one never can absolutely know another, as this would mean knowledge of every particular thought and feeling; since we must rather form a conception of a personal unity out of the fragments of another person in which alone he is accessible to us, the unity so formed necessarily depends upon that portion of the Other which our standpoint toward him permits us to see.