Quotes About Proportion

But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.

Première maxime. - Les sujets d'un Etat doivent contribuer au soutien du gouvernement, chacun le plus possible en proportion de ses facultés, c'est-à-dire en proportion du revenu dont il jouit sous la protection de l'Etat.

It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.

There is only now', he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

Fericirea este o chestiune de propor?ii.

Wszystko ma?e jest odbiciem czego? wi?kszego.

You do not want to get your debt ratio out of whack.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

Sure, life could always be better. But happiness is all about gaining a sense of proportion and perspective.

It lined up behind a 747 bound for Tokyo the way a mouse lines up behind an elephant.

Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.

which is 1.5 squares.

The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

The lizards died of having too much body and too little head,' said Rampion in explanation.'so at least the scientists are never tired of telling us. Physical size is a handicap after a certain point. But what about mental size? These fools seem to forget that they're just as top-heavy and clumsy and disproportioned as any diplodocus. Sacrificing physical life and affective life to mental life. What do they imagine's going to happen?

The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.