Quotes About Balance

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.