Quotes About Extremes

Those with the deepest lows also have the loftiest highs.

Beyond the limits there lies other limits.

Once you get below negative twenty, you purposely don't think. It's like there's no atheists in a foxhole. Same with negative twenty. That's when you do have religion. You do pray. You pray for warmth.

There were only two sorts of women so perfervid in their devotions: madwomen and saints, nor were the two species entirely distinct.

Europe's ranges looked Lilliputian in comparison. Eckenstein's men crossed vast glaciers, covered in huge rocks, riven by streams up to 100 ft wide. In Switzerland a typical glacier might culminate with a rocky terminal moraine a few hundred feet high, but here, according to Crowley, some of them soared up to 1500 ft.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

creative persons definitely know both extremes and experience both with equal intensity and without inner conflict.

Outside, we look like people, but inside we are as if machines that created evolution itself. Machine mechanisms of thinking moving from one extreme to another. The logic is completely automatic. Inside, everything works very accurately for a normal person, if something breaks, this person is called a madman. This is the absolute power of logic over everything. Robotic consciousness in which everything seems exotic when it is not a profit, but romance.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

The price for absolute freedom is boundless vulgarity.

murder is born of love and love attains the greatest intensity in murder

Teachers of old went to these extremes in revering the transmission of Dharma through the right masters. This means nothing other than valuing the Dharma more than anything else. In this sense, the question to be settled first of all for anyone is to select the right teacher who has clearly inherited Dharma through authentic masters.

Hay que ser héroe o santo. En el término medio no está la sabiduría, sino la vulgaridad

It turned out that the most meaningful events tended to be on the extremes—those that were very pleasant or very painful. These are the ones that matter, that leave a mark.

By eschewing shared belonging, and the benign patriotism that it can support, liberals have abandoned the only force capable of uniting our societies behind remedies. Inadvertently, recklessly, they have handed it to the charlatan extremes, which are gleefully twisting it to their own warped purposes.

The radical opposition came from the provinces. The mutinies were age-related, but they were not as simple as old-versus-young. Both older workers, who had been marginalized as their skills lost value, and young people, entering a bleak job market, turned to the extremes.

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

Nothing is more natural, of course, than that extreme environments produce their opposites.