When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the…

When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic…

— Adrienne Rich

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state…

— George Soros

From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and…

— George Gilder

“Shod Omnivorism; it pretty much sums up the current state of the world. I find the word 'shod' deeply descriptive; it conjures such an…

— Mango Wodzak

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is…

— I-Ching

“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than…

— Juan Enriquez

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for…

— Helmut Schmidt

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or…

— Jack Vance

“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion,…

— René Guénon

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the…

— Gunnar Myrdal

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except…

— Remy de Gourmont

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros