Unity Quotes - Page 31

• Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family.

  Wes Fesler

  Ambition, Our Family

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• There is no room for exclusion in family...only love.

  Wes Fesler

  Rooms, Exclusion, Only Love

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• The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.

  Wes Fesler

  Trials, Competing, Forged

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• None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Design, Finals

  "Vision and Design".

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• White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Wedding, Healing, Color White

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• Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

  Plato

  Military, War, Educational

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• Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

  Plato

  Political, Splits, Cohesion

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• No civilization can exist part free and part slave.
  
  ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way. There has always been a division of man. There has always been the conqueror and conquered-the master and slave-the ruler and the ruled-the oppressor and the oppressed. There has never been content nor unity. There has been only discontent and disunity.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Civilization, Historical

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• Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Thinking, Order, Society Today

  Address at Youth Day Vigil, zenit.org. July 19, 2008.

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• When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

  Plotinus

  Men, Inward, Looks

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.676, Delphi Classics

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• The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  People, Cry, Mass

  Kwame Nkrumah, Samuel Obeng (1997). “Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah”, Afram Pubns Ghana Ltd

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• It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  World, Problem, Weak

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• It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Views, Together, Events

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• All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

  Giordano Bruno

  Perfect, Way, All Things

  "Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic". Book by Giordano Bruno edited by Richard J. Blackwell and‎ Robert de Lucca, 1584.

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• I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

  Dorothy Height

  Thinking, Years, Circles

  Dorothy Height, Height (2009). “Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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• Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Focus, Purpose

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• But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Men, Personality

  "Systematic Theology".

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• The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines the meaning of existence. A frail structure shaped by fleeting sound, it yet contains the eternal: truth. Words come from within, rising as sounds fashioned by the organs of a man's body, as expressions of his heart and spirit. He utters them, yet he does not create them, for they already existed independently of him. One word is related to another; together they form the great unity of language, that empire of truth-forms in which a man lives.

  Romano Guardini

  Powerful, Heart, Fate

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• I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

  Albert Camus

  Spring, Mean, Desire

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  These Days, Human Experience, Specialization

  Allan McLeod Cormack's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1979.

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• The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Church, Gathering

  Stanley Hauerwas (1995). “In Good Company: The Church as Polis”, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

  Kofi Annan

  Religious, Effort, Understanding

  "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Coffee, Home, America

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• It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

  Heraclitus

  Wise, Listening, All Things

  "Fragments (Fragment 50)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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