“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.”

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 32

Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=HhHr0IIUDKkC&q=%22Freedom+from+fear%22+%22In+a+political+context+of+the+utmost+significance+this+clause+recognizes+a+human+right+which+in+a+broad+sense+may+be+said+to+sum+up+the+whole+philosophy+of+human+rights%22&pg=PA141#v=onepage at the celebration of the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (16 May 1956)

Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 176
Context: Even these humble objects reveal that our reality is not a mere collocation of elemental facts, but consists of units in which no part exists by itself, where each part points beyond itself and implies a larger whole. Facts and significance cease to be two concepts belonging to different realms, since a fact is always a fact in an intrinsically coherent whole. We could solve no problem of organization by solving it for each point separately, one after the other; the solution had to come for the whole. Thus we see how the problem of significance is closely bound up with the problem of the relation between the whole and its parts. 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 is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

"Bacon's Religion," p. 293
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)

Source: Culture and Value

Essays on the Higher Education (1899), page 7

Le sage guérit de l'ambition par l'ambition même; il tend à de si grandes choses, qu'il ne peut se borner à ce qu'on appelle des trésors, des postes, la fortune et la faveur.
Aphorism 43
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel

"The Artist and His Time"
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo