Coherence Quotes

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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and… — Christopher Alexander
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence:… — Octavio Paz
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop… — Robert Adams
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations… — Woodrow Wilson
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to… — Nicolas Gomez Davila
You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected, and, somehow, it's… — Henry Wessel, Jr.
We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act… — Pope Francis
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches… — Richard M. Nixon
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner… — John Stott
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… — John O'Donohue
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does… — Philippe Starck
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence… — Aaron Antonovsky
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are… — Kenny Smith
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's… — John Donne
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez

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