Socratic man believes that all virtue is cognition, and that all that is needed to do what is right is to know what is right. This... does not hold for Mosaic man who is informed with the profound experience that cognition is never enough, that the deepest part of him must be seized by the teachings, that for realization to take place his elemental totality must submit to the spirit as clay to the potter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of thin...gs today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a gener...al rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in its totality, in its structure: posterity discovers it in the st...ones with which he built and with which other structures are subsequently built that are frequently better--and so, in the fact that that structure can be demolished and yet still possess value as material.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, i...t was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physica...l appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful law...s while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistance ... Recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws ...of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under w...hich the will to live is objectified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that... by word or deed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »