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extremes

«This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.»
«To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.»
Author: Antoine Rivarol | About: Reverie | Keywords: extremes, reveries
«To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in»
Author: Mark van Doren (Educator, Writer) | Keywords: extremes
«The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.»
«The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.»
«This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.»
«Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.»
«Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.»
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
«The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.»

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