Completeness Quotes - Page 3

• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.1257, e-artnow

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• Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

  George Eliot

  Love, Dark, Blue

  George Eliot (2006). “Middlemarch: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

  Bruce Lee

  Taken, Mind, Absence

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.15, Tuttle Publishing

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• I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Brother, Children, Love You

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• Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Hands, Breathing

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

  Charles Fort

  Beautiful, Children, Thinking

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.10, Penguin

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• The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Christian, Self, Joy

  Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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• We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Exercise, Independence, Fairness

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.

  Max Planck

  Science, People, Goal

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• The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Children, Humility, Profound

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• Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Song, Pain

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.39, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Integrity, Animal

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, Children, Light

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.25, Om Books International

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• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

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• Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Commitment, Self, Denial

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• Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

  James Montgomery

  Should Have, Hymns, Unity

  "The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an Introductory Essay". Book by James Montgomery, 1825.

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• If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.

  David Papineau

  Simple, Good Questions, Answers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Short Life, Giving, Perfection

  Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.92

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• Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Bullying, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

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• Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

  Nancy Leveson

  Might, Requirements, Behavior

  Nancy Leveson (2011). “Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety”, p.49, MIT Press

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• Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.

  Robert Dabney

  Eye, Goal, Daylight

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• Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

  Basil Moreau

  Christian, Art, Mean

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• Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

  Kenneth Clark

  Bears, Losing, Burden

  "The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. VIII), 1951.

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