Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Our life is made by the death of others.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

I need them as much as they need me.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

I am because other people are.

Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.