Quotes About Harmony

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you.

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

I personally didn't subscribe to drastically changing our lives as a result of having children. Our children are our world, but I truly believe that it's healthier to invite children into your life instead of making everything about them.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Inclusiveness has an outlook, an appearance and substance.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.