"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent."

Wordsworth, William on birds   

"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."

I Ching on change   

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on power
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"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."

Pilgrim, Peace on life
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"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."

Carlyle, Thomas on labor   

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"To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship   

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."

Jones, Quincy on cooperation   

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

Wordsworth, William on contemplation   

"With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things."

Wordsworth, William on power   

"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."

Allen, James on environment
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"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number."

Armstrong, Edith on mind
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"Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought."

Mungers, Theodore on music   

"Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on progress   

"I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us."

Lawrence, D. H. on relationship   

"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."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on multiculturalism   

"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

Keller, Helen on knowledge
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"People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony."

Delillo, Don on football   

"If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness."

Thoreau, Henry David on science   

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on rest
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"If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter."

Bentov, Itzhak on mind   

"It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past."

Wright, Charles on past   

"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."

Hesse, Hermann on fear
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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"The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else."

Bradley, Preston on cooperation   

"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us."

Pascal, Blaise on beauty
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"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on grammar
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"One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault."

Unknown, Source on attitude   

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."

Plutarch on music   

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

Washington, George on peace
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"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

Pope, Alexander on art   

"Variety is the condition of harmony."

Carlyle, Thomas on variety   

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment."

Wilde, Oscar on pleasure   

"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other."

Rubinstein, Arthur on seasons   

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity."

Plato on beauty   

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

Lincoln, Abraham on capitalism   

"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."

Allen, James on peace
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"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

Green, Benny on music