Quotes About Harmony

Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.

Om aan de ontwerkelijking te ontsnappen - om de komst ervan uit te stellen - probeer ik me met de wereld te verenigen door middel van het slechte humeur.

The love story... is the tribute the lover must pay to the world in order to be reconciled with it.

Wie ein schlechter Konzertsaal ist auch der affektive Raum mit toten Winkeln durchsetzt, in die der Klang nicht mehr hineinreicht. Ist der vollkommene Gesprächspartner, der Freund, also nicht der, der in ihrem Umkreis die größtmögliche Resonanz schafft? Laßt sich Freundschaft nicht als ein Raum totaler Klangfülle beschreiben?

Credit is an entire thing. Every part of it has the nicest sympathy with every other part. Wound one limb and the whole tree shrinks and decays.

In a country riven by quarrels, Hamilton produced a vision of harmonious parts. Agriculture and commerce were mutually beneficial. North and south, the western frontier and the eastern seaboard, enjoyed complementary economies. The only thing needed to capitalize on these strengths was national unity.

We have abundant reason to rejoice that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition," President Washington wrote to one Baltimore church.26 "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.

Even in death, Peabody managed to foster Anglo-American harmony.

It is as if Earth were purposely hung in space, at just the right distance from the Sun, and provided with just the right amount of every element needed for life to exist.

Some people carry this philosophy too far. They look at the damage mankind does to the natural world, and they forget that humans are animals as well, and also deserving of reverence.

The best fights are the ones you don't have

Hence 8197. He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits. Square root of eighty-one was nine, and eight and one made nine. No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry. Perfect.

The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits. Square root of eighty-one was nine, and eight and one made nine. No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry. Perfect.

She had all the right parts in all the right proportions.

He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace and quiet was a full-time, nerve-rattling job.

I arise each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White The

Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination.

The soul cannot be immortal if it is composed of many things unless the composition is most perfect. But the soul as we know it from our experience lacks that perfect harmony. In order to find the truth, one would have to recover by reasoning the original or true nature of the soul. This reasoning is not achieved in the Republic . That is to say, Socrates proves the immortality of the soul without having brought to light the nature of the soul.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

You go your way I'll go your way too

The children declared that they would never speak of 'I' but only of 'we.' "2

The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful.