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[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

— Rudolf Arnheim

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium,”

— James Gleick

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

— Jean Piaget

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

— Will Durant

“It is important to recall at the outset that by a cognitive equilibrium (which is analogous to the stability of a living organism) we…

— Ulrich Müller

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

— Pierre Reverdy