#totality

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 #artist #best #body #complete

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#got #i #know #life #me

The world is the totality of facts, not of things. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#things #totality #world

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

— Maimonides

#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

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

— Kate Millett

#better #conditioning #could #discriminated #found

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

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human

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

#feeling #giving #his #hope #i

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

— Theodor Adorno

#exclusive #lacks #specific #totality

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

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

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

#back #conditions #consciousness #context #derives