Extremes Quotes

• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  

  William James
  • May
  • Distress
  • Ease

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Kind
  • Criticism
  • Critical

• The best things are placed between extremes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Things
  • Extremes

• I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

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

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Said
  • Mouths
  • Tails

• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Accounts

• Youth deals only in extremes.

  

  Ursula Bloom
  • Youth
  • Deals
  • Extremes

• When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Spiritual
  • Guitar
  • Intellectual

• I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fans

• There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Excess

• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Vision
  • Fatigue
  • Brushes

• I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Horror
  • Extremes
  • Imagery

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Clever

• Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

  

  Klemens von Metternich
  • Circumstances
  • Plan
  • Fail

• I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Emotions
  • Crying
  • Minute

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

  Alice James
  • Perfect
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

  

  John Dalton
  • Degrees
  • Ultimate
  • Chosen

• Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Virtue
  • Principles

• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Freedom
  • Certain
  • Limits

• I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Extremes
  • Peanuts

• When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Way
  • Behavior
  • Rhyme

• And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Fire
  • Attitude

• Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Cold
  • Middle
  • Familiar

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