There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
“All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You too can make the golden cut, relating the two poles of your being in perfect golden proportion, thus enabling the lower… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things -… — Richard Heath Copy Share Image
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“As I explain at some length in 'The Crystal Sun' this particular angle, which we can call the 'golden angle,' is the… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.” — Stephen M. Barr Copy Share Image
“The Great Pyramid, that monument to spirituality that the Agashan Teachers hold in such high esteem, is built according to the principles… — William Eisen Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Aristotle urged people to seek “the golden mean” between extremes, “moderation in all things” (which we interpret as including moderation in the… — Reid Hastie Copy Share Image
“There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat.,… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic… — Jay Kappraff Copy Share Image
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
