“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.” KnowsMenLifeHumansWholeHuman BeingsHumilityGlimpseFragmentsFruitionWhole TruthBest Of MeNothing But The TruthPartial Truth Book:Osler's Source: Osler's
“Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.” WorldMadeWholeMemoriesOur LivesObjectsBuildingFragmentsMemorial Author:Anthony Lawlor
“As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.” WholeTogetherLyingFoundWaterObjectsBrokenTypeElementsLateSkinsPassagesFragmentsDisturbingDisturbedSealsJarsBurialPotteryVasesRubbleLying On The FloorSmall Objects Author:Howard Carter
“I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.” TryingBelieveStillsWholeThreeFiguresPatternsFragmentsCarpetTeaseI Still BelieveHunkering Down Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.” WholeMemoriesSpaceAspectLongingBombsCosmosTime And SpaceFragmentsBursting Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels
“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.” ThinkingWayI CanBookWholeReadingInterestingBrainOne ThingInternetComputerPagesFragmentsSurfing Author:Ali Banisadr
“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.” WholeLinesWalksPerceptionLogicRelationDrivenRelatedInternalsPlatesSiteStrictSculptureFragmentsMeasurementAxesPlacementPromenade Author:Richard Serra