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“As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.”

Firsts Might Energy Expression Demand Tests Opposites Unity Variety Capability Repose Implied Ignoble

Author:John Ruskin

“Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.”

Energy Expression Demand Opposites Capability Repose Implied

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

“Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result.”

Ends Spiritual Force Results Expression Opposites Foundation Doctrine Doomed Organizational

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.”

Thinking Evil Term Deals Moral Objects Expression Empathy Opposites Murder Extremes Defined Damage Injury Subtle Willingness Components Breeding Subjectivity Lack Of Empathy

Author:C.E. Morgan