Coherence Quotes - Page 5

• Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Strong, Mean

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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 wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

  John Donne

  Father, Philosophy, Son

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D. Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.491

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• Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Law, Evil

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.28, Om Books International

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• Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

  Epictetus

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Syntax, Language

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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 not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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