#discord

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. ↗

— Plutarch

#discord #disease #examine #harmony #health

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. ↗

— Sallust

#discord #fall #great #great ones #grow

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ↗

— Sallust

#discord #greatest #smallest #states #thrive

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. ↗

— Edward Weston

#always #bach #discordant #fresh #fugue

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#discordianism #eternity #humor #joke #humor

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. ↗

— Heraclitus

#comes #concord #discord #fairest #harmony

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#billboards #created #discordant #environment #jarring

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#defied #discords #drown #enough #fly

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. ↗

— Adelaide Anne Procter

#discordant #ease #echo #fingers #harmonious