Totality Quotes - Page 6

• All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

  Carl Schmitt

  Law, Decision, Guarantees

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

  E. O. Wilson

  Variation, Benefits, Earth

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• There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Psychics, Important

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• I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

  Barnett Newman

  Impact, Giving, Feelings

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press

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• The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Principles, Mysterious, Behavior

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.379, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Sadness, Giving

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• In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There is a reason for this: whenever two persons fall in love, both of them present what is beautiful in themselves to the other and hide the ugly. When you fall in love, whether you are a man or a woman, you show your most beautiful face to the other - but it is not your reality, it is not your totality.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beautiful, Falling In Love

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• I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Mean, Men, Natural

  Franz Oppenheimer (2017). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, The Floating Press

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• It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Psychology, Important, Psychological

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychics, Psychology

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• The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Ego

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Love, Faith, Mother

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• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Science, Taoism

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• We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

  Octavio Paz

  Life, Roots, Individuality

  Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Thinking

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• The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

  Tony Judt

  Military, Independent, Social

  Tony Judt (2008). “Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century”, p.176, Penguin

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• To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant - I celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: 'When I am happy then I will celebrate,' or, 'When I am unhappy I will not celebrate.' No. Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life. It brings unhappiness - good, I celebrate it. It brings happiness - good, I celebrate it. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

  Rajneesh

  Attitude, Mean, Unhappy

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• The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

  Ellen Key

  Happiness, Children, Mean

  Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Greatness, Sea

  "Introduction to Metaphysics". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1953.

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• Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Doubt, Energy, Consolidation

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• The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Writing, Unbearable

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

  Stella Adler

  Heart, Mean, Creating

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• Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Ideas, Diversity

  "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

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• God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Our Actions, Action, Milieu

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.

  Seamus Heaney

  Ignorance, People, Different

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