Quotes About Equilibrium

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

Medieval medicine was also based on equilibrium ideas when it was top-down and similar to theology. Luckily its practitioners went out of business, as they could not compete with the bottom-up surgeons, ecologically driven former barbers who gained clinical experience, and after whom a-Platonic clinical science was born. If I am alive, today, it is because scholastic top-down medicine went out of business a few centuries ago.

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word equilibrium , or normal distribution , do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

I had been told in high school that the planets are in something called equilibrium, so we did not have to worry about the stars hitting us unexpectedly. To me, that eerily resembled the stories we were also told about the "unique historical stability" of Lebanon.

her hull might be compared to a fat man on the short end of a lopsided seesaw

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico

I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn't call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occurring

You couldn't underestimate them and you couldn't kiss their ass. There was a certain middle ground to be achieved.

What they need is everything even and smooth. Not love or hate, pleasure or pain, hope or fear, safety or danger. Nobody kissing your cheek at bedtime till you tingle with pleasure in your stomach, and nobody making you bleed. Accept one and you have to accept the other, that's the deal.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

Everything in moderation.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

Everything in moderation, like calories.

We're about moderation.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I do everything in moderation.