Quotes About Balance

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Wilson worried that the Constitution itself would not survive: "a nation can't put its strength into a war and keep its head level; it has never been done."13

In Wilson's mind, the signing represented the defeat not simply of Germany but of an entire way of organizing the world. Balance of power, armed alliances, secret treaties, "might makes right"—all these assumptions would now be thrown out.

our goal must be to bring man's unique fusion of body, mind, and spirit to its highest perfection.

America must be "neutral in fact as well as in name . . . impartial in thought as well as action.

But that community still exists, Aristotle argues, in order to make the householder happy, rather than the other way around.

the pursuit of our own self-interest actually causes us to reach out to others.

Golden Rule: I won't disturb your self-interest, if you don't disturb mine.

His heart is so filled with the love of the machine that it has somewhat crowded out his love of the men who must run it.

Aristotle's theory of the mean seems simple-minded; or to quote Bertrand Russell again, common sense pedantically expressed. However, if we change the word mean to proportion, we get closer to what Aristotle must have meant—and large parts of his Ethics as well as his Politics make more sense. The mean represents not so much a literal middle point as striking a balance between conflicting impulses and choices, and seeing our way through to the other side.

Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head.

Zo heeft hij altijd het meeste van mensen gehouden. Hun zindering te voelen zonder hun zwaarte. Te weten dat die er is, al die energie die ze vragen en opwekken, maar ver genoeg bij hem vandaan om er geen schok van op te lopen.

Redeneren wordt je dood. Het is overleven op intuitie of anders niet. Geloof me, bij een leven als dit moet je niet te lang stilstaan.

The answer to the runaway Presidency is not the messenger-boy Presidency. The American democracy must discover a middle ground between making the President a czar and making him a puppet.

I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.

How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.

I am not a prisoner of my reason. - Bad Blood

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

Man kann jemanden wahnsinnig lieben und muss doch um acht Uhr früh aufstehen, nicht wahr?

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?