Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute.
I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.
The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
The first time I was on TV, on "Flight of the Conchords," someone put up a YouTube clip and said, 'You're too ugly to be on TV.' And I was like, 'That is exactly why it's a good thing that I'm on TV.'
Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”
- Seneca
“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.
Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.
As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.