Literary notes about stability (AI summary)
The term “stability” is a chameleon in literature, adapting its meaning to diverse contexts and concerns. In economic and political discourse, for instance, it denotes an enduring order that supports national well‐being and the maintenance of government structures ([1], [2], [3], [4]), while in technical and scientific writings it is cast as a measurable property ensuring balance in physical systems and constructions ([5], [6], [7]). At the same time, philosophical and sociological works probe its nuances, contrasting it with dynamic energy or force and questioning its permanence in the face of change ([8], [9], [10], [11]). This multifaceted usage extends even to matters of personal character and social interaction, where stability becomes a metaphor for reliability and continuity in human affairs ([12], [13], [14]).
- The existence of the great war debts is a menace to financial stability everywhere.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - And they would have opened up for Europe some prospect of financial stability and reconstruction.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The body of a State thus organized might boast of its stability, its power, and, above all, of its glory.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Stability, on the contrary, requires that the hands in which power is lodged should continue for a length of time the same.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - Application of the theorem of work to the stability of the equilibrium of heavy systems.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Verification of the stability of an arch, and calculation of the pier supporting this arch.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Thick walls were necessary both for stability and for protection from the burning heat of that climate.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It is important not to confound stability with force, or the greatness of a thing with its duration.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Yet the stability attained is not absolute, but only such stability as the circumstances require.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - That "energy" and "stability" and "immutability" are contradictory.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - The contempt and hatred of all that perishes, changes, and varies: whence comes this valuation of stability?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Abstract conceptions, on the other hand, are only acquired by means of the words which alone serve to confer stability upon them.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - In passing from the emotional to the intellectual phase, sympathy gains in extent and stability.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Words soon come to give definition to such a feeling, which without expression in language would have but little stability.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
