Book Quote by Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

— Joseph Beuys

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

“Since it has no boundaries, the world is not a system.”

— Niklas Luhmann

“The urgency of the global situation is such that the foundation work of activating the totality of humankind via the Global Cooperative Forum must…

— Adi Da

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

— Isaac Newton

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“All knowledge systems, from modern science to those embedded in the most ancient of creation myths, can be thought of as maps of reality.…

— David Christian

“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this demands help…

— Herman Bavinck

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect.”

— Paulo Coelho

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing…

— Trevor Paglen

“The true world -- we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also…

— Friedrich Nietzsche