Totality Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

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• Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Criticism, Analysis

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.31, Arcade Publishing

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• It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Business, Order, Today

  "Fictional character: Arthur Jensen". "Network", 1976.

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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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• In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

  Morris Kline

  Space, Machines, World

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• The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

  H. G. Wells

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Karma, Fate, Destiny

  Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003). “Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism”, p.38, Himalayan Academy Publications

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• Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.

  Josef Pieper

  Spiritual, Reality, Space

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• When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Mean, Forever

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• It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good."

  David D. Burns

  Father, Kids, Errors

  Source: time.com

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• The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.

  Max Horkheimer

  Meaningful, Men, Order

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• Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Keys, Personality

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• As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Letting Go, Organization, Appreciate

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Thinking, Matter

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

  Ben Lerner

  Talking, Sides, Logic

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Body, Biographies

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• Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Profound

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• Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Wall, Keys, Organization

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Watches, Looks

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• If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Giving

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