Unified Whole Quotes

I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

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

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.