Quotes About Polarities

They are equals, but not the same, because when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life.

The shallow of the highs and the depths of the lows

But maybe that's where love grows best -- in the deep space that exists between polarities.

We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that's where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

Midlife is the time when we become most capable of managing the ambiguities and polarities of life. We come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't always make send and usually can't be controlled.

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect.

Polarities to manage are sets of opposites that can't function well independently. Because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent, you cannot choose one as a "solution" and neglect the other. The objective of the Polarity Management perspective is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

G C Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.

In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at the knots which hold the cosmos together, both look beyond the immediate world of sense perception into one where cause can only be deduced from effect - a quark is as invisible as an angel; both are confronted by Manichaean polarities - miracles and black magic, cheap energy versus total destruction.

Opposites attract. But opposites destroy.

There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against one another and crafting lines of rich, humorous nonsense like this poem that has been around for so many hundreds of years that you just have to sit back and, with nothing else in mind, laugh out loud. 

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.