Quotes About Duality

Ludzie, cienie, dobro, z?o, niebo, piek?o: wszystko to tylko etykietki, nic wi?cej. Ludzie sami stworzyli te przeciwie?stwa: natura ich nie dostrzega?a. W naturze nawet ?ycie i ?mier? nie by?y przeciwie?stwami - po prostu jedno stawa?o si? przed?u?eniem drugiego.stwa

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding To a bride with a paper ring And half of my heart is the part of a man Who's never truly loved anything

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

all good books are bad!

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

You can achieve knowledge only through comparing the two sides, positive and negative, which have become separated from each other. As long as these two sides are together, resting in each other, you can't perceive or recognize anything.

Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both. *

For one thing, while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools.

Sweet death in a vacuum, why can't anybody be uncomplicatedly evil in real life? Or uncomplicatedly good? Why are we all such a twist of good and bad decisions, selfishness and self-justification, altruism and desire?

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

He plays the white and black pieces both, a double game that defies all understanding.

Maybe you could feel all sorts of things, all of them mutually contradictory.

It was as if two different versions of reality coexisted in my head at the same time.

We might have been two opposite halves of one thing, complementary and conflicted.

The Exalt Rien knew were monsters as much as Lords and Ladies. If Rien was Exalt, would she become a monster, too?

She was not accustomed to finding someone with such obvious male attributes attractive. But the eyes and the throat and the breasts were all woman, if the long hands and torso and crotch were all wrong.

How many can say they got to see the world end twice?

Humans have their hearts. Humans have their souls. And look at the abominations they achieve.

Even if one were tempted to literary interpretations such as: life/death, right/wrong, male/female --such notions would have resolved, dissolved, straight off in that watery, dazzling dialectic.

It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual throws about himself, from Anna's smiles, from Lilian's tomorrows, from the shut-in room, the turned-in heart.

Don't you see we're all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?