"The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection." — Thomas Berry

"The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection."

— Thomas Berry

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72 Quotes by Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry has 72 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of…
Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a…
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if…
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to…
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of…
Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred…
The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all…
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down…
The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world…
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human…

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More Diversity Quotes

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity… — Chinua Achebe
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on… — Pearl Bailey
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin

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