Quotes About Balance

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.

Youth is the age of extremes: "if the young commit a fault it is always on the side of excess and exaggeration." The great difficulty of youth (and of many of youth's elders) is to get out of one extreme without falling into its opposite.

equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world: natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers.

he loved wisdom too much to be a "successful" man.

says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.")

If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war.

It costs as much to support a vice as it does to support a family.

What if the proper functioning of the intellect and philosophy is not the denial of the will (desire) but the coordination of desires into a united and harmonious will?

It would be better to abandon our overrapid development of the intellect, and to aim rather at training the heart and the affections

Life, says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)

If men were entirely social, man would stagnate; a certain alloy of individualism and competition is required to make the human species survive and grow.

Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead. Thought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought.

An ancient critic spoke of him as "moderate to excess.

Every philosopher should be an athlete. If he is not, let us suspect his philosophy.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole. Probably all three doctrines must be combined to find a perfect ethics; but can we doubt which of the elements is fundamental? X. Criticism

in politics, as in love, it does not do to give one's self wholly; one should at all times give, but at no time all. Gratitude is nourished with expectation.

says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)

Nor must I forget to tell of the liberty and equality of the two sexes in relation to each other….

I do not wish to belittle reason, but it should be the servant of love, not of pride.

I find that a high in one area of my life often produces a low in another