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Quotes About Whole

In my opinion the word 'existence,' in the sense that I have in mind, contains the following inextricably bound ideas: we are in a circumscribed environment and cannot know the whole, and if we refuse to take this whole into consideratiom, we mutilate ourselves,
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.
~ Max Horkheimer
spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole
~ Max Weber
The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.
~ Megan Hart
view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.
~ Unknown
To remove refined grains from your diet is to remove America's number one source of calories. Switching to whole grains may help reduce body fat, but there's an even better swap. See the Wall Off Your Calories section for taking your grain game up a notch and graduate from mere whole grains to intact whole grains, such as oat groats (also known as hull-less or hulled oats).
~ Michael Greger
Former Harvard nutrition chair Walter Willett has argued that the term whole grain should probably be reserved for only whole intact grain kernels.4978 So eat the wholiest of grains: intact grains, also known as groats.
~ Michael Greger
give me just three weeks. I find that if my patients think of it simply as an experiment, they're more likely to go whole hog (whole grain?) and realize the maximum benefits.
~ Michael Greger
What do your friendly flora eat? Fiber and a certain type of starch concentrated in beans. These substances are called prebiotics. Probiotics are the good bacteria themselves, whereas prebiotics are what your good bacteria eat. So the best way to keep your good bacteria happy and well fed is to eat lots of whole plant foods.
~ Michael Greger
With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.
~ Unknown
I guess that for a while it was justified because data was not so easy to access, so the whole academic world has developed without data in a sense.
~ Unknown
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you . I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.
~ Mindy Kaling
irrational number cannot equal a whole number or a fraction.
~ Morris Kline
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
The four gospels, again in their very different ways, are all written to tell the story of Jesus as the story of Israel, and the story of Israel's God, reaching their proper climax, so as thereby to tell the story of how Israel's God becomes king of the whole world.
~ Unknown
The gospels have been emasculated in much of the church by being split up into small portions and never seen as a whole, rather as if a great symphony were only ever heard in twelve-bar snatches; and it is this, incidentally but importantly, that has left the door open to those who want, for quite other reasons, to suggest that works such as the so-called Gospel of Thomas belong in the same category as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
~ Unknown
This is part of the paradox of love, in which love freely given creates a context for love to be freely returned, and so on in a cycle where complete freedom and complete union do not cancel each other out but rather celebrate each other and make one another whole.
~ Unknown
One day the whole creation will be flooded with his presence. Then they will look back and realize that they, like the Temple itself, had been a small working model, an advance blueprint, of that renewed creation.
~ Unknown
If reductionism is like trying to stuff all of reality into a box, we could say the problem is that the box is always too small. Idols deify some part of the created order. But no matter which part they choose, a part is always too limited to explain the whole. The universe is too complex and multi-dimensional to fit into a box composed of just one part. Invariably something will stick out. Something will not fit into its restricted conceptual categories.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Robert Kennedy spoke shortly before his death about the damage to a society caused by "the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men," by "indifference and inaction and slow decay" and by "a slow destruction of children." Kennedy added that "only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again...
~ Unknown
In most religious systems we are regarded as parts of the godhead which, if they do not obey the impulses of the whole, and even if they do not intentionally act against the laws of the whole, but only go their own way and do not want to be parts of it, are medically treated by the godhead—and either endure a painful cure or even are cut off.
~ Novalis
Constellation, not sequencing, carries truth. This is why travel psychology envisions man in equivalently weighted situations, without trying to lend his life any—even approximate—continuity. Life is made up of situations. There is, of course, a certain inclination toward the repetition of behaviors. This repetition does not, however, mean that we should succumb in our imaginations to the appearance of any sort of consistent whole.
~ Olga Tokarczuk