Equilibrium Quotes - Page 2

• Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Imagination, Figments, Humans

  Kenneth E. Boulding (1985). “Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace”, University Press of Colorado

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• Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

  Georges Bataille

  Mind, Sanity, Endure

  Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Children, Errors

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Growing Up, Evil, Trying

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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• It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Survival, External Forces, Function

  'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.

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• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Balance, Needs

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dangerous World, Practice, Insanity

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Opposites, Disorder

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

  Mark Tobey

  Artist, Space, Essentials

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• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

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• Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace.

  Candace Pert

  Inspirational, Peace, Health

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• As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  Dalai Lama

  Faith, Overcoming, Negative

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• The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

  Lillian Smith

  Dream, Reality, Life Is

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• When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, World, Able

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• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Two, Weight, Arms

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Law, Perfect

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• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Opposites, Evil, Principles

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• Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Morbid, Reactions, Suspicion

  Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller

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• Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

  Jose Marti

  Character, Men, Sane

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Balance

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

  Romano Prodi

  Democracy, Information, Entanglement

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• Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

  Sergio Aragones

  Character, Drawing, Design

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stupidity, Design, Religion

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

  Camille Paglia

  Order, Psychics, Biology

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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