Quotes About Equilibrium

which state, very baldly, that a thing moves in the direction in which it is pushed; that it will keep moving in a straight line until some other force acts to slow or deflect it; and that every action has an opposite and equal reaction)

When loss of balance is prolonged or severe, the brain doesn't know quite what to make of it and interprets it as poisoning. That is why loss of balance so generally results in nausea.

They have gotten down to their own right size. Humility is understanding that they're worthwhile. It's the middle ground between the extremes of grandiosity and intense shame.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.

Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

stasis field

Et tout rentra dans l'ordre, pourtant déjà bien plein.

Since the result is the same either way, I choose the path of least disruption

Against psychoanalysis we should oppose the ideal of an ego which does not abdicate, and which intends to remain conscious, autonomous, and sovereign in the face of the nocturnal and subterranean part of his soul and the demonic character of sexuality. This ego does not feel either 'repressed' or psychotically torn apart, but achieves an equilibrium of all his faculties ordered in accordance with a higher significance of living and acting.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Politics emerges as a mechanism for controlling violence, yet violence constantly remains as a background condition for certain types of political change. Societies can get stuck in a dysfunctional institutional equilibrium, in which existing stakeholders can veto necessary institutional change. Sometimes violence or the threat of violence is necessary to break out of the equilibrium.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Nuestra historia política oscila entre la fragmentación de poder y el caos, por un lado, y su excesiva concentración y sus consecuencias indeseadas, por el otro. No hemos logrado los equilibrios: un grado de desarrollo político en el que el gobierno funcione inserto en esquemas de contención, controles y contrapesos.

Nachdem nun nichts mehr an ihr stimmte, war die Welt wieder in Ordnung.

The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.