Quotations Golden mean (philosophy)
in many things middle have best / mine middle station.
— phocylides
when coleridge tried define beauty, returned 1 deep thought; beauty, said, unity in variety! science nothing else search discover unity in wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in variety of our experience. poetry, painting, arts same search, in coleridge’s phrase, unity in variety.
— jacob bronowski
…but harmony beautiful contemplate, science not worth following.
— henri poincaré.
if man finds nature tends or disposed 1 of these extremes..., should turn , improve, walk in way of people, right way. right way mean in each group of dispositions common humanity; namely, disposition equally distant 2 extremes in class, not being nearer 1 other.
— maimonides
wanted balance between extravagance , miserliness through moderation, goal of distance between both extremes.
— al-ghazali
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