Disharmony Quotes - Page 2

• All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

  John Dewey

  School, Knowledge, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

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• It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

  David Limbaugh

  Flames, Accountability, Lines

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• Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

  Robert Venturi

  Quality, Circumstances, Tension

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• The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

  Ernst Haas

  Tiny, Nuance, Photographer

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• Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Facts, Theory, Constant

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.51, Verso

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• Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Next, Emptiness, Reincarnation

  Rudolf Steiner (2001). “Reincarnation and Karma”, p.24, SteinerBooks

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• I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Things Change

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• I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced, coherent disharmony. That's one way to say it. And where if I keep working on it, to discover and struggle with new problems, I'll obliterate the ones I was working on. I could keep working on it, but it'd become something different. And I value what's here, at the moment.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Struggle, Thinking, Way

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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