Absence Quote by Aristotle

"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself…

— Max Wertheimer

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

— Aristotle

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

— Anonymous

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity…

— Werner Heisenberg

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that…

— Isaac Newton

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

— Jose Saramago

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole…

— Christopher Alexander