Extremes Quotes

Everything in the universe oscillates between extremes. Heat and cold, light and darkness, yin and yang. One cannot be understood without the other. It is the tension that creates movement, the contradiction that generates understanding. In these polar opposites lies power, and in the balance between them lies harmony.

These quotes are reflections on contradictions, balance, and the power of opposites.

Quote by Plato: Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of...
Quote by William Shakespeare: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as th...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, t...
Quote by Socrates: The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love th...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great dist...
Quote by Victor Hugo: Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance ...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust....
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains....
Quote by Albert Camus: Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called
Quote by William Shakespeare: The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy....
Quote by William Shakespeare: These violent delights have violent ends....
Quote by Blaise Pascal: I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time t...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears blac...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility....
Quote by Jonathan Swift: It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: All extremes of feeling are allied to madness....
Quote by Mark Twain: The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unend...
Quote by Winston Churchill: There is no working middle course in wartime....
Quote by Plato: Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . ....
Quote by Blaise Pascal: Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from u...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same....
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: All extremes are dangerous....