“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Nature has been engineering quantum effects at scale for 13.8 billion years. The Sun is the prime exhibit. It is the ultimate… — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism,… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they… — Plato Copy Share Image
![“In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the…” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d37/john-o-donohue-1919_beautiful_in-turning-away-from-beauty-we-turn-away_625329.jpg)
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