Wilhelm Von HumboldtAll situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
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When we examine our lives, we inevitably come to think of some situations as extreme and others as ordinary. Sometimes the two categories merge; we may see a situation as extreme and ordinary at the same time. However, in some situations, only one side is extreme; the other side is ordinary. The best example of this is the interaction between light and shadow.
Light is an extreme quality; shadow is an ordinary one. Yet they both exist in the same plane, reacting to each other.
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