Quotes About Duality

Todo lleva a creer que existe un cierto punto donde la vida y la muerte, lo real y lo imaginario, lo comunicable y lo incomunicable, lo alto y lo bajo cesan de ser percibidos contradictoriamente.

que le même homme peut être très énergétique en même temps que doux

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Either a universe with order and purpose or a medley thrown together by chance, but that too has order. Or can there be order of a kind in your inner world, but no order in the Whole, especially as all things are distinguished from one another, yet intermingle, and respond to each other?

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it.

Most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though to twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen

There was always that shadowy twin, thin when i was fat, fat when i was thin, myself in silvery narrative...

I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Health and Beauty, the two seductive twins joined at the navel, singing their eternal siren songs.

Considering that the whole point of Consilience is for things to run smoothly, with happy citizens, or are they inmates? Both, to be honest. Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.

Everyone likes to think they are doing good while at the same time pocketing a bag of cash

A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible