Totality Quotes

• Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Apology, Accepting

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• Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Powerful

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Together, Littles

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• The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

  Carl Jung

  Intellect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.119, Psychology Press

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• Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Self

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• All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Consciousness, Arise, Validity

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press

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• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Eye, Hands

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• But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Understanding, Culture, Made

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• Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Mind, Concentration

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• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

  Franz Kafka

  Dog, Questions And Answers, Rescue

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

  Sri Chinmoy

  Acceptance, Views, Perfection

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.201, Aum Publications

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• The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Aspiration, Exclusive

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.79, Verso

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• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  Kate Millett

  Discrimination, Proof, Conditioning

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.55, Columbia University Press

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• Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Blood, Imagination

  Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).

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• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Population, Poultry, Incubation

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• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Our Actions, Lord

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• The world is the totality of facts, not of things

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

  Portia de Rossi

  Sexuality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.

  Julius Streicher

  Mean, Humanity, Speak

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• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  Maimonides

  Law, Perfect, Desire

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

  Charles Hermite

  Truth, Mistake, Independent

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• Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Tiny, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

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• This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Unbroken, World, Solidarity

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• Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.

  Marion Woodman

  Writing, Heart, Soul

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