contrast

is a powerful clarifying agent: To depict spring, it has to be in wintertime... to describe a beautiful landscape, one must be enclosed within walls.

My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are. . . . If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime... if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls... and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is the background that things need to properly appear. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. Francis Bacon

is the sin-qua-non of existence. There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exist in itself. Herman Melville

is that which gives texture to the world. By shadow only do we perceive that all visible objects are not flat.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly... by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

is essential to our accurate cognition of our world. We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

is the sin-qua-non of vision. The eye doesn't in fact see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

is responsible for the perpetuation of difference --- it's from their having stood contrasted that good and bad so long have lasted

It's from their having stood contrasted that good and bad so long have lasted

is valuable for it brings things into perspective --- He who has not tasted bitter, knows not the sweet.

He who has not tasted bitter, knows not the sweet.

contrast, n.All

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