#equilibrium

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#alive #always #am #ask #brings

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#equilibrium #harmony #mathematics #metaphysics #physics

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#hope #hopeful #life

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#death #equilibrium #life #death

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#also #became #equilibrium #even #large

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#directly proportional #displaced #displacement #electron #equilibrium

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#bring #call #conditions #equilibrium #establish

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#equilibrium #fortunately #men #nations #sane