Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the la...bors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is not dialectical--it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or s...ynthesis. This is also the principle of evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our er...rors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child- nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime per...sists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good c...old in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, ...but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That doctrine [of peace at any price] has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It ...has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with... their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great reposito...ries of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What I want is a strange conjunction with you--" he said quietly; "Mnot meeting and mingling;Myou are quite right:Mbut an equilib...rium, a pure balance of two single beings:Mas the stars balance each other."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »