Fundamental Elements

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“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity 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.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)