Quotes About Harmony

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.