unity, n.Definitions

Unity is not a unifying unity, but the countable one, two, three.

Unity is like so many good things, good only in moderation.

Unity is established in a community more by common hatred for something than by love, friendship and respect.

Unity is necessarily manifested by the binary insofar as unity as such and the idea of unity are already two.

Unity is achieved in only one of two ways. Either one overcomes separateness by regression to the state of unity before awareness and before birth, or one develops one's awareness to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

Unity is, in the case of the text, found not in its origin but in its destination. The reader makes the first unity of the text when he takes it up in his hands.

Unity is capable of holding a great variety of opinions and views, dissension, conflicting ideas and opposition. Uniformity, on the other hand, means everybody thinking alike or saying that they think alike.

Unity is, despite what is often said, by no means the principle characteristic of human life. Principle of analysis that there is no unity in life, and that nobody understands anything of what happens.