Quotes About Harmony

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

It had never occurred to me to think of aesthetics and ethics as opposites. I thought ethics were aesthetic. "Ethics" meant the golden rule, which was basically an aesthetic rule. That's why it was called "golden," like the golden ratio.

Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it.

Deep down I have a talent for well-being.

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

The good man," says Plato, "is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

White and black: with these two categories the diversity of a thousand ethnicities is lost.

Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?

Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.

If pleasure is Nature's seal of approval, sleep is her reward.

Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive and continuous. They do not need to compete to reach this level of success but to take it in their strides and to relish the opportunity to pluck from The Universe its opulence.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

What is universal is the human propensity to create order out of chaos.

Domestic music-making has declined in recent years; but those who still engage in it know that making music together is an irreplaceable way of achieving closeness. The members of a string quartet sometimes develop a special intimacy which they claim is unmatched by any other relationship.

Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.

Participating in music, whether as performer or listener, brings us into contact with greatness, and leaves traces of that greatness as permanent impressions. I share Plato's conviction that musical training is a potent instrument 'because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul'.

Music can order our muscular system. I believe that it is also able to order our mental contents.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.