Quotes About Equilibrium

I know that the pendulum often has to swing a few degrees into the wrong direction before righting itself, but it does get wearing sometimes waiting for the center to catch hold.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

all hail the light, the dark, and the gray.

A force from above held him down, and a counterforce from below bore him aloft. He hovered on unexceptionality.

The quiet lines matter as much as the noisy ones.

I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology, "homeostasis," i.e., a tensionless state. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology, "homeostasis," i.e., a tensionless state.

I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is called in biology, homeostasis, i.e., a tensionless state. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

There is a rhythmic interchange between positive and negative. The high becomes low, the low becomes high. Everything is exchanging with its opposite to create a state of equilibrium. Each must become the other to achieve balance. The discharged must become charged, and the charged must become discharged. The universe always wants to be balanced, and in a state of equilibrium.

Transcend the opposites of death and life, find the Point of Singularity in which the two become One.

By synthesizing contradictions you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One went up and the other went down. One gained, the other lost. One escaped, the other was trapped, forever.

It strikes him that there is a beautiful symmetry to life.

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.