#totality

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. ↗

— Otto Bauer

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The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another. ↗

— Fred Frith

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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

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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. ↗

— Barnett Newman

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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

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

— Theodor Adorno

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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

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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

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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#anthropology #beings #context #experience #human