Christopher Alexander Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

  Christopher Alexander

  Happiness, Men, Facts

• I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Color

• We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

  Christopher Alexander

  Two, Design, Kind

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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