Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

We are each other's destiny.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.