Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
Contrast Quotes
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”… We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
Milo abroad, one wonder all declare: His lands lie fallow yet his wife can bear. The contrast strange, some deep diviners scan: She has tho’ they have not, a husbandman.
The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and sadness of life are the tragi-comedy […]
Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
