Harmony Quotes

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformitÃ©] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with… — Paul Cezanne
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony. — Confucius
An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has not any conflict… — Rajneesh
Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts happening on its… — Rajneesh
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets… — Thomas Carlyle
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part… — Michel de Montaigne
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Variety is the condition of harmony. — Thomas Carlyle
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. — Thomas Carlyle
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound… — James Whistler
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this… — Frederic Bastiat
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.… — Norman Cousins
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk

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