Totality Quotes - Page 9

• I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

  David Lynch

  Love Is, Thinking, Universal Love

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• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Quality, Needs, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3880, Manonmani Publishers

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• What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.

  Horace Walpole

  Believe, Men, Order

  Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”

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• From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Reality

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

  "Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1816.

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• Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  "Hegel: A Reinterpretation". Book by W. Kaufmann, 1966.

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• The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Facts, Cases, Determine

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evolution, Made, Evolve

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.559

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• I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Arguing, Action

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• Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, World, Body

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

  Medardo Rosso

  People, Body, Lines

  Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

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• Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Thinking, Facts, Logic

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• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Pursuit Of Happiness, Unique

  "The universe is a green dragon". Book by Brian Swimme, www.context.org. 1984.

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• The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Country, Children

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

  Arthur Adamov

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Twelve

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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• God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Mean, Independent, World

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 347), 1941.

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• Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophy, Reflection, Reality

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• A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

  Stephanie Mills

  Life Changing, Home, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

  David Icke

  Writing, Love Is, Years

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• My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

  Herbert Bayer

  Artist, Integration, Contemporary

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• If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

  Georges Bataille

  Humanity, Want, Realizing

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.26, A&C Black

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• As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.

  Michael Ian Black

  Fun, Reality, Thinking

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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