Quotes About Symmetry

Auspiciousness comes only through balance.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

Whatever is below is like that which is above, and whatever is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

Blinding, joyous, fearful symmetry surrounds me. So much is incorporated within patterns now that the entire universe verges on resolving itself into a picture. I'm closing in on the ultimate gestalt: the context in which all knowledge fits and is illuminated, a mandala, the music of the spheres, kosmos.

For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

If we assume that the arms grew outwards from the center, then there must be something in that center that imbues each of the six arms with the same organizing principle

Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.

I call architecture frozen music.

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The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.

CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

Architecture is frozen music.

Beauty is visible music....

I felt myself like a foolish bird, a bird born in a cage without power to attain freedom... I walked along the fields, by the neat iron railing with which they were enclosed. All about me was visible the care of man. Nature herself seemed under the power of the formal influence, and flourished with rigidity and decorum. Nothing was left wild. The trees were lopped into proper shape, cut down here where their presence seemed inelegant and planted there to complete the symmetry of a group.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree;

I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.