Quotes About Balance

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but it is especially true if there is an emotional vampire in your life.

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.

The clergyman had held field services in France when the shells were dropping all about his khaki congregation. Thus, the advent of a huge and muddily shaggy dog did not throw him off his mental balance in the mere reading of a marriage service.

The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

Vernunft und Herz müssen miteinander wirken, wenn eine wahre Sittlichkeit zustande kommen soll.