Two Extremes Quotes

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Extremes

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• Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

  Michael Kors

  Two, Giving, Caviar

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• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Vices

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• The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Rocks, Two

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Music, Fear

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• Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

  Cindy Sherman

  Silly, Thinking, Self

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• I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

  Chris Cleave

  Character, Athlete, Decision

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• I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Negative, Different, Type

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  Harold H. Greene

  Mean, Lectures, Poor

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Imbalance, Causes, Helping

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Two, People

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• If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, Two, Netherlands

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• A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

  Aberjhani

  Life, Change, Essence

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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• Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, Police

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• There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

  Henri

  Pain, Two, Want

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• Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

  Eric Maisel

  Two, Half, Way

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

  Arca

  Healing, Two, Anxiety

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Two

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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• The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control.  Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

  Michael Badnarik

  Two, Control Of Your Life, Government

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• If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Sight, Two

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