William James Quotes

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love.

To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.

The soul knows no persons.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

If I could know me, I could know the universe.