Equilibrium Quotes
178 quotes by 158 authors
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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…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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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…
— Jean Baudrillard
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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
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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
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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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
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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…
— Confucius
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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
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The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
— Max Eastman
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Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
— Thomas Huxley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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