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Quotes About Symmetry

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
~ Henry Miller
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
~ Daniel Burnham
I'm a big fan of matching outfits in general.
~ Clark Duke
Balance is overrated.
~ Thomas Leonard
When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
~ Tom Shadyac
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
~ Pearl Buck
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
~ Lord Byron
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
~ Cicero
That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.
~ Unknown
That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
~ Unknown
Do you know what makes people love one another? Well, no one else does, either. But scientists study it, and there's all this bizarre stuff about pheromones and facial symmetry and the circumstances under which you first met. People are weird. Our bodies are weird. Maybe I can't help being attracted to her the same way flies can't help being attracted to carnivorous plants.
~ Holly Black
Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.
~ Lionel Shriver
You can't just build a huge chest and arms. You need to work out your body evenly. Otherwise, A, you'll look weird, and B, it's not the best for your body.
~ Kellan Lutz
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.
~ Nicole Krauss
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
~ Shane Koyczan
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
~ Plotinus
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
~ Johannes Kepler
... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.
~ Julia McNair Wright
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
~ Socrates
The essence of beauty is unity in variety.
~ Felix Mendelssohn
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.
~ Paul Dirac