William James Quotes

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

One people out of many.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

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.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.