With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
~By Norman McLaren ~
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Virtue is harmony.
~By Pythagoras ~
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
~By Dennis Banks ~
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
~By Sai Baba ~
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
~By Max Bill ~
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
~By Plutarch ~
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
~By Adrian Smith ~
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
~By Sallust ~
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
~By Elizabeth Fishel ~
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
~By Gyorgy Legeti ~
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
~By Audre Lorde ~
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
~By Alejo Carpentier ~
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
~By Xun Zi ~
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
~By Josiah Royce ~
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
~By Robert Plant ~
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
~By James Allen ~
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
~By Lope de Vega ~
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
~By Carl Lewis ~
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
~By Laurence Housman ~
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
~By Heraclitus ~
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
~By George William Russell ~
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
~By Herman Hesse ~
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
Peace, unity and harmony!
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
~By Edward Witten ~
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
~By Henry Rollins ~
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
~By Christopher Alexander ~
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
~By Anatole France ~
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~By James Allen ~
It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
~By Alan Watts ~
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
~By Xun Zi ~
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
~By Henri Poincare ~
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
~By John Fogerty ~
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
~By Albert Camus ~
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
~By Jean Genet ~
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
~By Artur Rodzinski ~
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
~By Stephen Stills ~
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
~By Tina Turner ~
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
~By Corita Kent ~
Truth is inner harmony.
~By Walther Rathenau ~
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
~By Naomi Watts ~
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
~By Ruth Bernhard ~
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
~By Khaleda Zia ~
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
~By Lope de Vega ~
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
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