Quotes About Harmony

Moderation in all things

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.

Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.

the use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;

Again, Practical Wisdom and Excellence of the Moral character are very closely united; since the Principles of Practical Wisdom are in accordance with the Moral Virtues and these are right when they accord with Practical Wisdom.

A straight nose is the most beautiful, but one that deviates from being straight and tends toward being hooked or snub can nevertheless still be beautiful to look at. Yet if it is tightened still more toward the extreme, [25] the part will first be thrown out of due proportion, and in the end it will cease to look like a nose at all, because it has too much of one and too little of the other of these opposites.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.

Virtue lies in moderation

For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas the proportionate amount produces, increases, and preserves it.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The more perfect a nature is, the fewer means it requires for its operation.

The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.

Tennyson. You know: 'Eating the lotus day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of' … something, something.... You get the point.

transcendental volleyball

Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.

Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.