Parts Of A Whole Quotes

• A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Great Spiritual, Humans

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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• A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mathematical Logic, Greek, Fists

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.401, Anchor

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• Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Unity, Whole

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington translated by Lucy Norton (journal entry on January 25, 1857; p. 346), 1980.

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• Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Peace, Tree, Harmony

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• I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

  Brenda Strong

  Balance, Saws, Aspect

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns... Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Patterns, Energy, Inseparable

  Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.64, Bantam

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• Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spring, Love Life, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.67, Random House

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Garden, Keys, Looks

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Mathematical Logic, Greek

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• The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada.

  Hans Richter

  Design, Together, Realization

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Discovery, Experience

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• You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

  Mitch Albom

  Fall, Airplane, Thinking

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• Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

  Edward Weston

  Clouds, Rocks, Tree

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

  William Golding

  Majesty, Redemption, Vastness

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• A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Empathy, Healthy, Psychological

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• But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Weather, Gossip

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

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• At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Law, Division Of Labor

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 41 in 1947 translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Safety, Earth

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey

  World, Economic, Outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.111, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Logical Reasoning, Mathematical Logic, Greek

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Political, Way

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• Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

  John Thune

  Idaho, Ideas, Chance

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