Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

-Aristotle
c.330  BC   Poetics, ch.7, referring to tragedy.

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.

-Beuys,Joseph
  From an interview with G  Jappe (translated by J Wheelwright), in Studio International, vol.184, no.950, Dec. Quoted in C Harrison and P  Wood (eds)  Art in Theory1900^1990 (1992).

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith,'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all nor be afraid!'

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Rabbi ben Ezra', stanza1.

Though taste, though genius bless To some divine excess, Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole; What each, what all supply May court, may charm our eye, Thou, only thou can'st raise the meeting soul!

-Collins,William
  Odes on Several Descriptive and  Allegoric Subjects,'Ode to Simplicity', no.8.

because my father lived his soul love is the whole and more than all

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  50 poems,'my father moved through dooms of love'.

   Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  The Absentee, ch.11.

Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body† For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.

-Fowles,John Robert
Quick Singles,'Vain Memories'. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.

-Gee, Maggie
  Lost Children, ch.35.

You say potato and I say po-tah-to You say tomato and I say to-mah-to† Let's call the whole thing off!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'Let's Call theWhole Thing Off', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

   If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o'mine,O mother o'mine.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
The Light That Failed, dedication.

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

-Pope, Alexander
Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.65^6.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body, Nature is, and God the soul. 660

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.267^8.

How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.235^6.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

-Ruskin,John
  TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it. «

-Schopenhauer, Arthur
  DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.17 (translated by E F J Payne).

Who will dare deny that theThird Estate contains within itself all that is needed to constitute a nation?† What would theThird Estate be without theprivileged classes? It would be a whole in itself, and a prosperous one. Nothing can be done without it, and everything would be done far better without the others.

-Sie'  yes
  Qu'est-ce que le tiers-e¤  tat?

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half-suspected, animate the whole.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
'Receipt for a Salad', quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1, ch.11.

To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous† I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

-Trollope, Anthony
  The Small House at Allington, ch.4.