— Stephen Jay Gould, buch Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
"Our Natural Place", p. 250
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
„It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.“
Pt. I, ch. 2, sec. 2.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Kontext: Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.
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Alfred North Whitehead6
britischer Philosoph und Mathematiker 1861 - 1947Ähnliche Zitate
— Apollonius of Tyana Ancient Greek philosopher 15 - 100
Attributed to Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece
— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Original: (zh-CN) 马克思主义的哲学认为，对立统一规律是宇宙的根本规律。这个规律，不论在自然界、人类社会和人们的思想中，都是普遍存在的。矛盾着的对立面又统一，又斗争，由此推动事物的运动和变化。矛盾是普遍存在的，不过按事物的性质不同，矛盾的性质也就不同。对于任何一个具体的事物说来，对立的统一是有条件的、暂时的、过渡的，因而是相对的，对立的斗争则是绝对的。
— Clement Greenberg American writer and artist 1909 - 1994
"Milton Avery" (1958), p. 201
1960s, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, (1961)
— Donald Judd artist 1928 - 1994
Donald Judd (1983) in: Donald Judd (1987) Complete writings, 1975-1986. p. 28 ; Quoted in: " Archives http://www.juddfoundation.org/archives" at juddfoundation.org, 2014
1980
„Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.“
— Livy Roman historian -59 - 17 v.Chr
Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome
„Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.“
— Pindar, buch Olympic Odes
Olympian 2, line 87; page 16; the Greek simply says:
"wise is one who knows much by nature," but σοφός is Pindar's usual word for poet.
Variant translations:
Inborn of nature's wisdom
The poet's truth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)
Original: (el) σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ.
„Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.“
— Eugène Delacroix French painter 1798 - 1863
25 January 1857 (p. 346)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
„Unity of intent is on the lips of many, but in the hearts of few.“
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
Letter to Harold Adam Innis (14 March 1951), published in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 223
1950s
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Kontext: There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy millions of light years away. Walt Whitman said, "I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...." These words are not philosophy. They come from the depths of his soul. He also said, "I am large, I contain multitudes." This might be called a meditation on "interfacing endlessly interwoven." All phenomena are interdependent. When we think of a speck of dust, a flower, or a human being, our thinking cannot break loose from the idea of unity, of one, of calculation. We see a line drawn between one and many, one and not one. But if we truly realize the interdependent nature of the dust, the flower, and the human being, we see that unity cannot exist without diversity. Unity and diversity interpenetrate each other freely. Unity is diversity, and diversity is unity. This is the principle of interbeing.
„Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
— Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970
La France fut faite à coups d'épée. La fleur de lys, symbole d'unité nationale, n'est que l'image d'un javelot à trois lances.
in La France et son armée.
Writings
— Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
„Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity.“
— Marcus Aurelius, buch Selbstbetrachtungen
VIII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Kontext: Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again.... he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal... he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.
