Quotes About Harmony

Any day stands equal to the rest.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.

Changing, it rests.

Under the comb the tangle and the straight path are the same.

The unseen harmony is better than the visible

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

Graspings: wholes and not wholes, convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random

From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.

The way upward and the way downward are the same.

Si no hubiera un constante juego entre los contrastes, el mundo dejaría de existir

The road up and the road down is one and the same

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

He goes on to discuss the element of "dwelling upon" and advises that his readers can develop "special ways, tricks, private techniques, and spiritual devices" in order to achieve contemplation. One means is the use of a single syllable such as "God" or "love":

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

When your life is in order, your goals are attained and your visions are realized. Your purpose is fulfilled, and you are in a complete harmonic relationship with the universe.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

All men are equal before fish.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark