Best 51 quotes in «equilibrium quotes» category

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls, the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

He did not want to be young again -- that time had had particular and transcendent horrors -- but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.

Equilibrium.

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world; offer your silence with smile.

Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with the day, the night, each of the four inhabitants of the house was aware of a presence that was at once a judge and a justification among them. The world, here, became a personage, counted among those from whom advice is gladly taken, those in whom equilibrium has not killed love.

Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's upset the equilibrium of us

Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.

Nature's a balance. There's always a price. For every give, there's a take, and for every success, a sacrifice.

So it is with blackberries. If you pull too hard, you may get the berry but you will lose the sweetness of it. On the other hand, if you leave it, it may be gone the next time you come by. Each person must find this point of equilibrium for himself.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

The innate problem of humankind is the inability to find equilibrium. Equanimity and equilibrium. These are what humans cannot seem to attain. Honour without soul will lead to destruction. Soul without honour will lead to destruction. But humans cannot seem to understand this. Or understand the state of equilibrium in anything at all! All honour and no passion is death. All passion and no honour is death. This is why people always die. Because everyone is always running to either extreme end of the pendulum. Everybody wants to be all black or all white. Who is a balanced man? Bring him to me! I will have found a unicorn!

Stillness is the most powerful virtue against all odds in life.

The end doesn't give back to the beginning

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.

Those who are resilient can more quickly regain their equilibrium and spring back when they are thrown off kilter by the storms of life.

The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre - Du passé et du futur)

This equilibrium was so hard-won.

What seems mysterious can be understood.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

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

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

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

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.