Coherence Quotes
70 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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