#extremes

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#balance #bear #bright #bright lights #comfort

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

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

#beneficial #consequences #evil #extremes #forget

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. ("Interim") ↗

— William S. Wilson

#extremes #middle #nature #scotland #trees

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows

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

#characters #decisions #extreme #extremes #i

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#extremes #education

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#meet #mouth #said #tail

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#get #just #need #sometimes #stand

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. ↗

— John Avlon

#back #both #debate #define #extremes