Equilibrium Quotes

178 quotes by 158 authors

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… — Rudolf Arnheim
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is… — Jean Baudrillard
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts… — Albert Camus
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for… — Albert Claude
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. — Eric Hoffer
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
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
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… — Confucius
The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the… — Mark Tobey
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. — Max Eastman
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. — Thomas Huxley
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Walter Houser Brattain
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your… — Denise Morrison
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your… — Joseph Brodsky
Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and… — Sigurd F. Olson
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss… — Sir John Richard Hicks
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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