Quotes About Harmony

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.

when they both have equal confidence.

I've never understood how closely things are connected to one another, and it isn't just the zodiac I'm talking about. We human beings are only a part of something very much larger.

Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence.

The metre of the poet, the metronome of the musician, the centimetre of the mathematician, are all derived from the same root, metron: measure, measurement.

In other words, evolution is neither a free-for-all, nor the execution of a rigidly predetermined computer programme. It could be compared to a musical composition whose possibilities are limited by the rules of harmony and the structure of the diatonic scales-which, however, permit an inexhaustible number of original creations. Or it could be compared to the game of chess obeying fixed rules but with equally inexhaustible variations.

The superimposition of two systems: thought and metre,' wrote Proust, 'is a primary element of ordered complexity, that is to say, of beauty.

Thus the pure archetypal harmonies, and their echoes, the musical consonances, are generated by dividing the circle by means of construable, regular polygons; wheras the 'unspeakable' polygons produce discordant sounds, and are useless in the scheme of the universe.

The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon—such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling.

There is an underlying unity in all things

The eternal being, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

cur numeri musici et modi, qui voces sunt, moribus similes sese exhibent? ): Probl. c.

animal and plant are the descending fifth and third of man, the inorganic kingdom being the lower octave. The full truth of this last simile will become clear to us only when, in the next book, we attempt to fathom the deep significance of music. There we shall see how the connected melody, progressing in high, light, and quick notes, is to be regarded in a certain sense as expressing the life and efforts of man, connected by reflection.

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