Quotes About Balance

Yo me hago daño y me saboteo a mí mismo para no hacer daño a nadie que no se lo merezca.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

No excellent soul is exempt from mixture of madness

Nijedna savršena duša nije lišena neke mešavine ludila. Aristotel

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.

A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.

Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.

A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

You might as well ask why the same man sprints safely across an obstacle course in the day, and falls over the furniture in his room at night.

I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason.

Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.

Gaia is just an extension of the desire for comfort and security extended to an entire planet. What's wrong with that?" "What's wrong with that," said Trevize, "is that my house or my ship is engineered to suit me. I am not engineered to suit it. If I were part of Gaia, then no matter how ideally the planet was devised to suit me, I would be greatly disturbed over the fact that I was also being devised to suit it.

They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.

even if you have right on your side, even if justice thunders condemnation, it is usually the tyranny in existence that has the balance of force on its side.

murió... Porque le faltaba sabiduría y le sobraba corazón.

My fury does not blind me.

You can't have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don't see how you can have such things on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry.