Disorder Quote by Rudolf Arnheim Download Open image “Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.” — Rudolf Arnheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disorder Equilibrium Opposites
[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 Copy Share Image
“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Chaos brings about disorder but then that disorder leads to order. The universe has an equilibrium with chaos. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder. — Dan John Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. — Scarlett Pomers Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image