"As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not."
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"I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it."
"Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered."
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
"God is Unity, but always works in variety."
"Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better."
"There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned."
"I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms."
"When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love."
"When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time."
"The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible."
"One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal."
"Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life."
"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other."
"Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall."
"Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual."
"We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity."
"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."
"Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity."