“Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
— Sallust, book Bellum Iugurthinum
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Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech in Birmingham (16 May 1902), quoted in The Times (17 May 1902), p. 12
1900s
“What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.”
Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors
Book I, epistle xii, line 19
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.”
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
The Way to Peace, Power and Long Life (1945), p. 121 (2001 edition)
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959) https://archive.org/details/heraclitus00whee <br class="br">Disputed
Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) Italian politician and jurist
“Il dovere dei giovani” (“Duty of Young People”), in Alfredo Rocco’s Scritti e discorsi politici, Milan: Giuffrè. Vol. 2, (1938) p. 526
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Source: The Quotable Einstein