Quotes About Harmony

At the same time remember that one can dislike another man's doctrines without disliking the man. If a reply seems rather hard on your pet beliefs, do not regard it as being hard upon you. It is not meant to be. Not one word is intended to hurt anybody personally.

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

It is a fairly general rule that the picturesque is based on someone else's inconvenience

communication simply requires

Pain and joy are also part of the polyphony of life, and ... they can exist independently side by side.

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Nature speaks in equations.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God.

You have not grasped a complex unity if all you know about it is how it is one. You must also know how it is many, not a many that consists of a lot of separate things, but an organized many.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Up the street a song cloud floats by, sagging a bit, but still intact. I walk faster and catch up with it just in time to hear the ending, a symphony orchestra, the sound full and resplendent, and it is one of those times, you know those times every so often when you hear the right piece of music at the right time, and it just makes you think.

When I am looking through the viewfinder and I have the Frame of Reference filter set just right, I can, if I choose to, relax my mind in such a way as to imagine that I have actually become one with the device, have merged with it, and after a while the distinction between my vehicle and me gets a bit confused. I

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.