Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination."
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Coherence
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Christopher Alexander
Architect
"Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates."
David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?"
Jose Saramago
Writer
"we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence."
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"No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied."
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"Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism."
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