Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world. — Youngme Moon Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial… — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
