Quotes About Duality

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

My paradise is in the shadow of my sword.

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.

The night is also a sun.

Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides.

Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected", Nietzsche asked in his book The Gay Science, "that he who wants the greatest possible amount of one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other?

dearest—every person is a prison and also a recess.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree.

It is the belief in the moral opposition between Good and Evil that makes the world tremendously hateful and eternally conflict ridden.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster

Um allein zu leben, muss man ein Thier oder ein Gott sein - sagt Aristoteles. Fehlt der dritte Fall: man muss Beides sein - Philosoph....

Omul e doar o funie, întins? între bestie ÅŸi Supraom — o funie peste un abis

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra's Breasts.

Know it or not, man treads between twin abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.

The fast fliers are not disgraced. Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. She saved us, but she's with him now. Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

It's almost as if the Swedes have two different personalities: one for winter and one for summer. I am both a happy and a melancholic person. It's complex as I get so much from life.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.