Wholes Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but…
— Peter McWilliams
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space.…
— Robert Grudin
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things
— Heraclitus
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An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way,…
— Patricia L. Fry
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Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the…
— Max Wertheimer
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Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than…
— Peter Senge
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So…
— Thomas Nagel
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all…
— Donna J. Haraway
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There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to…
— Max Wertheimer
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Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in…
— Roderick Nash
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A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a…
— George Eliot
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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but…
— Jason Mraz
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its…
— Susan Sontag
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.…
— Charles Jencks
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For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that…
— Katy Perry
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Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
— Robert James Waller
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Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was…
— Deb Caletti
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An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way,…
— Patricia Fry
Who Wrote These Wholes Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Wholes Quotes as follows: