John Hodgman Quotes

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.