Equilibrium Quotes
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.
Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.
For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.
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 sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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!
Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.
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.
I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.
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 everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.
