Quotes About Contrast

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

Look poor, think rich.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.

Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

Light has no value if there is no darkness.