“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.” IfsArtArtistTeachGreaterPiecesAchieveElementsAchievementIncreaseUnityVarietyComplexityWorks Of ArtSatisfying Author:David Steindl-Rast
“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.” MenStatesPoliticalDesireInterestNumbersGreaterSpringHarmonyUnityActiveVarietyOccasionsArrangementsCollisionTransgressionManifold Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.” LightGreaterTroubleDoorsStudiosVarietyCarried Away Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.” ThinkingWould BeCompanyGreaterSubjectsConversationVarietyEngagedDiscourseConfinedAssembly Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.” NeedsHas BeensPainPassionPoorStruggleRichGreaterEffectsCrimeMaterialsSpringInfiniteInjusticeVicesPossessionDrivenSignificantVarietyAcquireGuaranteesGoodsEvidentCompulsionRich And PoorImmoralitySurplusCovetousnessWretchednessCumulativeUnrelentingUnderprivileged Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoePastYoungUnderstandingEducationKnowingGreaterInformationVarietyGapsExposedSophisticatedExperience And LearningKnowing And Understanding Author:David Elkind
“The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.” StatesWholeSupportGreaterCapableWavePhysicsDoctrineRadicalVarietyCombinationQuantumQuantum Physics Author:Hermann Weyl
“Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.” HumansGreaterHigherDegreesDeeperVarietyHuman LifeDegradationExaltation Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .” MindHumansCharacterPastWonderForeverGreaterMovementInfiniteComplexesDepthSensesEndlessMysteriousVarietyHuman LifeDestinationMistUnfathomableEntiretyIntricacy Book:The Tesla Papers Source: The Tesla Papers