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“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.”

Feels Two Ideas Form Sex Born Behinds Evolution Models Harmony Shame Originals Assuming Naked Chairs Seduction

Author:Fabio Novembre

“The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.”

World Heart Made Soul Philosophy Form Science Natural Numbers Education Concepts Harmony Mathematics Mathematical Manifest Heart And Soul Natural Philosophy Mathematical Beauty

Book:On Growth and Form

Source: On Growth and Form

“I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.”

Giving Believe Persons Form Order Shapes Harmony Meaningful Life Of Pi Book

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.”

Form Natural Painting Scene Harmony Unity Sake Painter Landscape Colour Exaggerated Prevailing

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

Ifs Art Form Strong Lines Awareness Direct Harmony Intuition Rhythm Works Of Art Curves Calculations Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Piet Mondrian

“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.”

Whole Character Facts Body Form Sound Movement Produce Particular Elements Universal Accounts Function Harmony Rhythm Atoms Vibrations Celestial Celestial Bodies

Author:Pythagoras

“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”

Men Government Form Business Rights Duty Harmony Institutions Property Privilege Limitation Corporate Corporations Contracts Truthful Representation Property Rights

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”

People Knows Form Know How Style Particular Color Draws Harmony Drawing Execution

Author:Paul Gauguin

“And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

“Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.”

Form Views Behinds Steps Comfort Harmony Misery Bliss Strife Woe Hue

Book:The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

Source: The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

“Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.”

People Different Government Together Form Values Community Harmony Working Together Diverse Different Peoples Forms Of Government Federalism

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas Earth Together Faces Form Individual Becoming Reflection Harmony Raises Scales Staring Covered Grain Expansion Domain Envelopes

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.”

Years Believe Doe Art Two Reason Form And Love Harmony

Author:Bill Gaither

“Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.”

Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ

“The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.”

Giving Beautiful Form Spirit Order Morning Exercise Worship Harmony Temper Sensible Household Serenity Observers Occasional

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.”

May Long Moments Light Form Song Father House Sky Sorrow Angel Harmony Notes Clouds Golden Tone Sunset Melody Everlasting Long Life Truest Pilgrimage Vapor Cadence Consecration Golden Light

Author:John Ross Macduff

“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”

World May Different Age Spiritual Form Spirit Humanity Community Gone Groups Development Tradition Harmony Unity Loyalty Remarkable Historic Fellowship Mystic Different Religions

Author:Haile Selassie

“Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.”

“Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.”

Form Achieve Effects Emotional Expression Music Is Harmony Extraordinary Extremes Composer Dynamics Wagner Orchestration

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.”

Men Needs Art Form Elements Tasks Harmony Dozen Contradictory Involving

Author:Alvar Aalto

“Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.”

People Trying Together Form Interesting Ready Murder Harmony Come Up Assassination Not Ready Love One Another

Author:George Carlin

“Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.”

Form Purpose Harmony

Author:Alvar Aalto

“In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.”

Long Whole Form Church Lines Wall Harmony Lays Singers Pins Hymns Meter Wedges

Author:Maya Angelou

“Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field. That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness. It looks a certain way, sounds a certain way, and feels a certain way. I try to stay in harmony with what I believe it sounds and feels like.”

World Way Feels Trying Believe Looks Soul Shows Form Spirit Certain Universe Energy I Believe Sound Consciousness Teach Fields Harmony Physics Quantum Particles Quantum Physics Energy Fields

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that are critical of all forms of injustice, all forms of bigotry, all forms of dehumanizing other people, and yet still allow for a certain kind of flow, linguistic flow, certain kinds of melodies and harmonies in the samplings that take place?”

People Thinking Kind Stills Form Certain Issues Concerned Flow Harmony Injustice Critical Bigotry Melody Progressive Accents Prophetic Sampling Melody And Harmony

Author:Cornel West

“Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.”

Form Understanding Responsibility Practice Achieve Acceptance Highest Commitment Harmony Sacred Strive Crucial Personal Responsibility Counterparts Forms Of Love

Author:Arielle Ford

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Art Together Form Hate Building Art Is Harmony Architecture Hats Way Of Thinking Synthesis Modern Architecture

Author:Alvar Aalto

“Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.”

Mind Ideas Eye Form Flow Harmony Theme Orchestration

Author:Johannes Brahms

“What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.”

Ifs World Humans May Form Suffering Differences Danger Balance Terrible Harmony Species Ill Rejoice

Book:The Eternal Flame

Source: The Eternal Flame

“the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”

Love Humans Heart Faces Form Peace Love Is Divine Mercy And Love Harmony Dresses Pity Jealousy Romantic Love Human Heart Human Faces Human Form Innocence And Experience

Author:William Blake

“Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.”

Men World Years Different Care Today Earth Jobs Form Spirit Sides Natural Animal Responsibility Angel Years Ago Harmony Plant Natural World Telepathy Different Jobs Shared Responsibility

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”

World Long Whole Stories Earth Form Life Is Individual Greater Our Lives Mystery Childhood Movement Expression Seasons Harmony Limitation Parenthood Gravity Individual Life Maleness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“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.”

Kind Two Form Design Harmony

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.”

Dream Form Humanity Peace Society Conscience Harmony

Book:Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

Source: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

“Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.”

Whole Form Peace Greater Tree Harmony Diverse Minerals Parts Of A Whole

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical. The etheric, composed of finer, more attenuated substances than the physical, is corresponding amenable to vibratory influences. It is upon the former that harmony and rhythm have the most potent effect. Good music readjusts its molecular structure in accordance with the original divine plan, the archetype, and refines and accentuates it's vibratory currents. All forms of beauty and harmony increase this regenerating process.”

“I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.”

“I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.”

“To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you’ve given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.”

“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”

Kind Feelings Form Pure Ultimate Absolutes Harmony Bless

Author:George Leigh Mallory

“For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.”

Mean States Moments Form My Own Consciousness Inspire Expectations Harmony Exploration Climbing Distraction Intuitive True Freedom States Of Consciousness

Author:Lynn Hill

“In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.”

Knows World Form Strange Harmony Mathematics Jazz This Day Peculiar Handy Jazz And Blues

Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.”

Form Law Results Movement Harmony Contrary Live By Equilibrium Analogies

Book:Transcendental Magic

Source: Transcendental Magic

“They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.”

Soul Might Form Results Influence Childhood Worst Security Keys Harmony Preparation Inevitable Lambs Slaughter Good Health Parental Happy Childhood

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel