Unity Quotes - Page 14

• God is Unity, but always works in variety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oneness, Variety

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.177, Harvard University Press

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Fall, School, United

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• The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.

  Hugh Martin

  Mean, Giving, Together

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• The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dream, Men, Long

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reality, Delusion, Multiplicity

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• All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Divinity, Divine, Metaphysics

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• Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expression, Mind, Silent

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• If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Art, Achievement, Elements

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Migration, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Simplicity, Portraits, Landscape

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• Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

  Lawren Harris

  Change, Mind, Watches

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• So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.

  Emil Brunner

  Love Is, Law, Long

  Emil Brunner (2002). “The Letter to the Romans”, p.111, James Clarke & Co.

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• To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Doors, Sky

  John Muir (2001). “Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple”

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• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  Anton Webern

  Art, Mean, Law

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Tired, Fighting, Pay The Price

  "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.wbur.org. March 22, 2015.

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• The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

  Edward Bach

  Real, Hate, Ignorance

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Heaven, Invitations

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Disappear, Ends

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• As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Three, France, Spears

  "France and Her Army". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1938.

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• It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beautiful, Passion, Intellectual

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.183, Classic Books Company

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• The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Defense

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.63, Best Books on

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• [T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

  John Dryden

  Play, Three, Action

  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)

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• So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

  Henri Bourassa

  Country, Europe, Two

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