Quotes About Harmony

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and back a dozen times, a hundred … still you couldn't count the planets that cohabit this planet.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Indeed, for all their traditional antagonisms and obvious differences, the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.

American culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite …the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life."

Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.

Die Ethik ist nur vollständig und echt und lebendig, wenn sie alle lebenden Wesen mit einschliesst.

Vernunft und Herz müssen miteinander wirken, wenn eine wahre Sittlichkeit zustande kommen soll.

Jusqu'à ce qu'il étende le cercle de sa compassion à toutes les créatures vivantes, l'homme lui-même ne trouvera pas la paix.

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.