
“todos nós sabemos com África sabe se transformar naquela que cada um tem dentro de si.”
O Planalto e a Estepe
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Every organism represents a system, by which term we mean a complex of elements in mutual interaction. From this obvious statement the limitations of the analytical and summative conceptions must follow. First, it is impossible to resolve the phenomena of life completely into elementary units; for each individual part and each individual event depends not only on conditions within itself, but also to a greater or lesser extent on the conditions within the whole, or within superordinate units of which it is a part. Hence the behavior of an isolated part is, in general, different from its behavior within the context of the whole… Secondly, the actual whole shows properties that are absent from its isolated parts.
As cited in: D.C. (1969) "Systems Theory — A Discredited Philosophy". in: Abacus V. p. 4
1950s, Problems of Life (1952, 1960)
“todos nós sabemos com África sabe se transformar naquela que cada um tem dentro de si.”
O Planalto e a Estepe
La multitude qui ne se réduit pas à l'unité est confusion ; l' unité qui ne dépend pas de la multitude est tyrannie
Oeuvres - Volume 2, Página 411 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=1zQTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA411 - item CXIV, Blaise Pascal, François de. - Neufchateau - Chez Lefèvre, 1819