“Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 143
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
Heraclitus, Fragments, 54; http://philoctetes.free.fr/heraclitefraneng.htm and http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/HERAC.HTM; also translated in such variants as:<br>The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one<br>The hidden harmony is better than the open one. <br class="br">Misattributed
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“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux. <br class="br">Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Quatre-vingt-treize_-_III%2C_7#V_LE_CACHOT <br class="br">Ninety-Three (1874)
“Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.”
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Quote by Nigel Farage on an article in the Zimbabwe Independent, regarding the EU winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 October 2012. Nobel Peace Prize really deserves a new name. http://www.theindependent.co.zw/2012/10/19/nobel-peace-prize-really-deserves-a-new-name/ <br class="br">2012
“There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Ancient belief in a cosmos composed of spheres, producing music as angels guided them through the heavens, was still fluorishing in Elizabethan times.... There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony. Besides the music of the celestial spheres (musica mundana), two other varieties of music were distinguished: the sound of instruments...(musica instrumentalis), and the continuous unheard music that emanated from the human body (musica humana), which arises from a resonance between the body and the soul.... In the medieval world, the status of music is revealed by its position within the Quadrivium—the fourfold curriculum—alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Medieval students... believed all forms of harmony to derive from a common source. Before Boethius' studies in the ninth century, the idea of musical harmony was not considered independently of wider matters of celestial or ethical harmony.<!-- Ch. 5, pp. 201-202
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
