Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

it is no easy task to find the middle.