Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

We are each other's destiny.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

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

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

Everything you touch touches you.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

As I go, the team goes. If the team's not going, I'm not going. No matter how good I play, it's still bad.