Equilibrium Quotes

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Trouble

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• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

  Eliphas Levi

  Law, Analogies, Movement

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.425, Weiser Books

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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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• Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

  Confucius

  Order, Perfection, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Earth Day, Survival

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.226, Penguin

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• Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

  Jean Piaget

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Determined, Mediums

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Peace, War

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

  Dalai Lama

  Faith, Overcoming, Negative

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

  Romano Prodi

  Democracy, Information, Entanglement

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