Quotes About Duality

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

Every man is a hero to his alias.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

People who self-identify as "moderates" appear not to be inbetweeners, but rather biconceptuals—conservative in some issue areas and progressive in others. Last

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

La double pensée est le pouvoir de garder à l'esprit simultanément deux croyances contradictoires, et de les accepter toutes deux.

If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza?" he had asked in the great essay on dirty postcards. "Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

Mientras los humanos sigan siendo humanos, la vida y la muerte seran la misma cosa

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy;

After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

He was the tormentor, he was the protector, he was the inquisitor, he was the friend

Her taÅŸ blokunun içinde bir heykel olmas?na benzer ÅŸekilde, her ÅŸiÅŸman?n da içinde zay?f birinin olduÄŸuna hiç dikkat ettiniz mi?

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzdan bir insana, bir insandan bir domuza, gene bir domuzdan tekrar bir insana bakt?lar. Fakat hangisinin domuz, hangisinin insan oldu?unu bilmek imkan? kalmam??t?.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Tú no te mueves. No te moverás. Otro, un socias, un doble fantasmagórico y meticuloso hace, quizás, en tu lugar uno a uno, los gestos que tú ya no haces.

Inside every wrong-doer and crook there lives a human being. In addition, of course, there is an opponent in a game, and it's the player that the police are inclined to see. As a rule, that's what they go after.