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“He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.”

People Men World Should Has Beens Soul Song Asks Imagine Should Have Harder Blessed Caught Rage Now And Then Fragments Should Have Been Refrain Spurs Cacophony

Author:Steven Erikson

“All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.”

Want May Persons Whole Pain Cases Son Empty Dull Fragments Johnson Tobias Whole Person Empty Life

Author:Veronica Roth

“Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.”

Whole Humor Reality Cutting Deep Thought Fragments Unified

Book:Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

“Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Believe Littles Happens Knowledge Study Illusion Structure Valuable Thinker Fragments Psychologist Refined

Author:Marvin Minsky

“All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.”

Knows Life Heart May Secret Prophet Fragments

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments! Nobody is bothered about the totality of the person -- and it is a vast thing. The nose does not count for much --- after two days you won't look at it at all. Or the color, or the shape, or the proportion of the body -- all these things are very minor. The real thing is the total functioning of the person, and that can be experienced only when you live together.”

People Men Looks Persons Doe Two Real Body Together Certain Fall Love Is Marriage Color Type Shapes Falling In Love Noses Proportion Minors Fragments Bothered Real Things Two Days Totality

Author:Rajneesh

“Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.”

Two Lines Melody Verses Fragments

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.”

World May Force Romantic Driven Fragments Propensity

Book:On Love & Happiness

Source: On Love & Happiness

“Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. To be one with the whole is the real success. And when that success is achieved, then you really enjoy that growth - that growth of your awareness which makes you one with the whole. That is what you have to know, is to become your whole. You are just a fragment, a segment, a cell. You have to become the whole and that can be done only through this connection.”

Knows Love Real Done Whole Wisdom Spirit Enjoy Growth Meditation Awareness Yoga Connections Cells Wellness Enlightened Fragments Real Success

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.”

World May Spiritual Spirituality Enjoy Fragments Renounce Interruptions Hermits

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

“All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.”

Reason Whole Humility Ocean Thrown Glimpse Fragments Whole Truth

Book:The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

“Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.”

Knows Trying Sometimes Stories Together Remember Certain Memories Know How Be You Fragments Shifting Falsification

Author:Gunter Grass

“No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.”

Knows Time Names Grows Degrees Flow All Things Fragments

Book:Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

Source: Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.”

“A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.”

Men Wisdom Streets Wall Stones Intelligence Corners Intellect Thrown Fragments Crushed Pipe Street Corners

Author:George Sand

“Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.”

Together Life Is Used Pieces Seeing Connections Luck Surprise Unusual Coincidence Fragments Interconnected Unusual Things

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven.”

World Feels Littles Sometimes Earth Heaven Easy Powerful Huge Corners Perceive Stillness Portions Layers Wholeness Fragments

Author:Rick Bass

“God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.”

Men World God Eye Spirit Greater Creation All Things Foundation Fragments

Author:Seneca the Younger

“All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.”

Knows May Science Knowledge Impossible Ordinary Accounts Pursuit Insignificant Fragments

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.”

World Children Hands Earth Science Grows Pieces Mystery Fit Relation Boxes Connected Puzzles Fragments Geology Geologist

Book:Geological Sketches

Source: Geological Sketches

“Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.”

“At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.”

Source: Osler's

“At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye.”

Mind Has Beens Whole Eye Science Taken Pieces Sight Bones Portions Fragments

Author:Georges Cuvier

“Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.”

Knows Men Giving Age Young Friendship Failing Rocks Honest Depends Integrity Lows Fearless Firm Faithful Fragments Adversaries Adviser Stand Firm

Book:Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1

Source: Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1

“Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.”

Children Hands Pain Spirit Bits My Own Walks Streets Tears Regret Skins Longing Casts Burden Naked Hills Attachment This Day Ache Fragments Garments These Streets

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling apart in different directions. It is a miracle how we go on keeping ourselves together; it is a hard struggle to keep oneself together. Somehow we manage, but that togetherness remains only on the surface. Deep down there is turmoil.”

Mind Different Hard Together Desire Fall Struggle Goes On Miracle Remains Oneself Crowds Surface Manage Psychics Falling Apart Fragments Togetherness Deep Down Turmoil Different Directions

Author:Rajneesh

“On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.”

Knows World Whole Science Lying Knowledge Founders Precise Fragments Scientific Knowledge

Author:Karl Jaspers

“The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.”

Ifs Way Hands Together Science Suffering Order Natural Impossible Trouble Dangerous Accounts Refuse Confused Imperfect Partnership Persist Torn Confusing Fragments Natural Order Torn Apart

Author:Marin Mersenne

“It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.”

“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.”

Way Has Beens Two Helping Shows Fall Belief Break Sky Wall Prove Islam Discussion Fragments Break Through Sana

Author:Gerd R. Puin

“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.”

Ifs Turns Grows Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Ideals Dust Ashes Fragments Growing Old Shattered Outgrowing Family Growing Up

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.”

Dream Fall Left Memories Happenings Analysis Unconscious Meaningless Freak Hypothesis Fragments

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."”

Ifs Writing Wells Sometimes Certain Language Goes On Police Add Sentences Observation Urges Rhetoric Floating Delicious Grammar Fragments Disregard Clauses

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.”

“The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.”

“One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.”

Men Mind May Moments America Evil Parent President Universal Down And Rewards Servant That Moment Idols Distrust Fragments Downfall Benefactors Public Servants High Places

Author:Charles Dickens

“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.”

“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”

Men Used Lost Language Social Danger Civilization Elements Complicated Observation Rescue Oblivion Fragments Scope

Author:Victor Hugo

“Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”

Night Next Journey Zone Fragments Nocturnal Time Zones

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.”

Soul Earth Form Fragments

Book:Faeries' Oracle

Source: Faeries' Oracle

“Movies are a world of Fragments.”

World Fragments

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.”

Ifs Spiritual Form Order Bits Pay Attention Grace Evolution Truth Is Aspect Pay Attention Threatening Fragments Infancy Truth Love Mosaics Spiritual Evolution

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece”

Whole Pieces Fragments Fractions

Book:My Life and My Life in the Nineties

Source: My Life and My Life in the Nineties

“I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.”

Source: Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment

“Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.”

Mean Moments Helping Pieces Cutting Mindfulness Destruction Woods Strokes Fragments Unwanted Latent Defilement

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311

“THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.”

Men Left Generations Century Happenings Died Flesh Wheels Old Man Fragments Twentieth Century My Generation Stains

Author:Dambudzo Marechera

“Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”

Thinking Way Book Stories Home Bigs Taught Notes Odd Gestures Unnecessary Fragments Unfinished Vignettes

Author:Amitava Kumar

“What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.”

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