Quotes About Duality

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

We may note within ourselves many a long struggle the end of which is one of our own actions--struggles which are, as it were, the reverse side of humanity. This reverse side belongs to God; the obverse side to men.

I had the feeling that Nakajima was taking one aspect of me - the straightforward, easy-going part that emerged when I was with him, the cheerful surface that I had inherited from my mom - and blowing it all out of proportion. If so, he might feel terribly betrayed when my dark, somber side eventually showed its face.

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.

Things keep coming around and around in this world, it's all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

This is good, and all good things cast shadows.

Two people were swimming in the sea One was alive and the other dead. See.

The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration.

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence

Imagination is a double-edged sword. You get cut both ways—bleed happily, bleed nostalgically.

Man is double, having an animal and a spiritual nature, at war with one another.

The notion of the first man having been of both sexes till the separation, was very common. He was said to have been male on the right side and female on the left, and that one half of him was removed to constitute Eve, but that the complete man consists of both sexes.

The truth is that most of us see what we are looking for in this world. If we are looking for evil we find it. The reason is not merely that evil exists all around us. There is another reason, far more potent. By looking for evil in our fellow creatures we bring out evil either from them or from ourselves, perhaps from both.

Polarities to manage are sets of opposites that can't function well independently. Because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent, you cannot choose one as a "solution" and neglect the other. The objective of the Polarity Management perspective is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

Opposites attract because they are alike. They are alike in that they are opposites.

Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.

It might be pleasant to be alternately victim and executioner.

Theology. What is the fall? If it is unity become duality, it is God who has fallen. In other words, is not creation the fall of God?

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

It's the nature of man to give and receive - to be man and woman, all in one.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.