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  • It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

    Kurt Koffka (1999). “Principles of Gestalt Psychology”, p.176, Psychology Press
  • The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

    Christian   Men   Firsts  
    C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction
  • Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

    Perfection   Dull   Irony  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

    Summing Up (1938) p. 187
  • One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

    Summer   Country   Wall  
  • The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

  • Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

    Art   Travel   Adventure  
    "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.
  • [About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

    Taught Us   Long   Evil  
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ch. 15 (1963)
  • Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

    Art   Exercise   Order  
    Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”
  • A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

    Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.401, Anchor
  • Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

    Art   Opportunity   Order  
  • The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

    Woodrow Wilson (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”
  • In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.

    Country   Clubs   Modesty  
  • I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

    Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.361, Penguin
  • What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.

    Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.31, Oxford University Press, USA
  • We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

    Love   Life   Change  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • A painting is more than the sum of its parts

    Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

    Order   Evil   Summing Up  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.

    Dream   People   Ignorant  
    Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.40, Hachette UK
  • An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.63, Vintage
  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

    James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”
  • Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

    Book   Writing   Ends  
  • I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

    Book   People   Prejudice  
    John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation
  • There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

    Order   Evil   Atheism  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

    Fall   Autumn   Years  
    Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York
  • On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

    Land   Nurse   Broken  
    Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor
  • Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

    Attitude   Book   Leaving  
  • Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

    Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc
  • There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

    Writing   Men   Guilt  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
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