Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
-Edward Young

I plunge into the depths,
and while analyzing every atom,
I search out the whole.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This world is a vast unbroken totality,
A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
-Aurobindo Ghose

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body is Nature, and God the soul.
-Alexander Pope

Philosophically speaking,
Wholeness includes and integrates two fundamental principles,
the principle of Unity and the principle of Multiplicity.
-Dane Rudhyar

You must know the whole before you can know the part
and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Whatever is true of the universe as a whole
must also be true of the individual as part of this whole.
-Ernest Holmes

To understand the whole,
it is necessary to understand the parts.
To understand the parts,
it is necessary to understand the whole.
Such is the circle of understanding.
-Ken Wilber

The universe is a single whole,
comprised of many parts that are also wholes.
-Plato

Just as every portion of a hologram
contains the image of the whole,
every portion of the universe enfolds the whole.
-Michael Talbot

Everywhere we look in Nature,
said the philosopher Jan Smuts,
we see nothing by wholes -
and not just simple wholes,
but hierarchical ones:
each whole is a part of a larger whole
which is itself a part of a larger whole.
Fields within fields,
stretching throughout the cosmos,
interlacing each other
and everything with each and every other.
-Ken Wilber

The fabric of existence
weaves the whole.
-Charles Ives

There are three sorts of "Wholes" -
the first, anterior to the parts;
the second, composed of the parts;
the third, knitting into one stuff
the parts and the whole.
-Proclus

If truth is a simplifying idea
that magically transforms a mosaic of theory and fact
into an elegant whole,
if beauty is a harmony of parts
that allows each to give and receive from the whole,
what is this whole?
Is it not but another name for the One?
Whole and complete means One
and nothing left outside of it.
-Albert Low

The meaning of the whole

stems from its center.

-Mark Musa

Wholeness is not truly whole
until it is all-inclusive.
-David Steindl-Rast

The whole is more
than the sum of its parts.
-Aristotle

It is in the Whole of something

that holiness may appear.

-Carolyn Kleefeld