Aristotle Quotes

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The common denominator is a love of music.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you.

… the great equalizer.

Separate not thyself from the community.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

I think these kinds of public disputes are bad for our people.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.

Sport represents a union of diversity.

That's what it's about. Bringing unity, so our kids can grow up safe.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

I dance with the dancers.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.