“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?” IfsThinkingHumansSeemsMightHumanityThreeIndividualHuman BeingsLevelsFourObjectsHigherAspectLogicBiggerSevenBillionsCertaintyUncertaintyPerceiveGiantsReasoningDimensionsCollectivesWhat IfHigher LevelNounsOntologyDiscreteThree Dimensions Author:Robert J. Sawyer
“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsKindHardCoursesIndividualRolesBandBigger Author:Stone Gossard
“In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.” IndividualSonBrotherBiggerAfghanistanUnclesCousinSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Ive gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.” WellsLooksUseEyeUsedGirlIndividualSidesNaturalBiggerMessyGlueLashesEyelashes Author:Katherine Webb
“The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.” IndividualGoalMoralDivineEssentialsUltimateBiggerIncreaseRemainsObjectivesAttributesUltimate GoalMoral Life Author:Roberto Unger
“Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.” ShouldIndividualEconomyBuildingTaxesBiggerRateRevenueAmerican Politics Author:Ronald Reagan
“Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.” PeopleMeanIndividualBasesBiggerMean People Author:Geri Halliwell
“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.” WorldIndividualFictionCompanyIdentitySourceBiggerStorytellingMake SenseDramaticAfghanistanSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Khaled Hosseini