To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We a...re incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with the... spirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularity... accompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the pol...arity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites--opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, lo...yalties. Where there is no polarity--where energies flow smoothly in one direction--there will be much doing but no music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the ...disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »