Middle Path

Famous quotes containing the words middle path, middle and/or path:

    “However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    “A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude.... A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”
    —Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

    “The lesson which these observations convey is, be, and not seem. Let us acquiesce. Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the lord’s power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)