Quotes About Duality

Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.

What is your principal characteristic, would you say?' 'Treacherousness,' said Danny, gloriously. 'That,' said Lymond pleasantly, 'is everyone's principal characteristic.

So this was Richard's brother. Every line of him spoke, palimpsest-wise, with two voices. The clothes, black and rich, were vaguely slovenly; the skin sun-glazed and cracked; the fine eyes slackly lidded; the mouth insolent and self-indulgent. He returned the scrutiny without rancour.

The carrying voice of Alec Guthrie said unexpectedly, 'But as Sir Graham has already pointed out, every practising Christian must serve two masters.' 'My God … I know it,' said Lymond. 'My nerves are on edge like a Dublin butcher over the conversation as it is. The situation is that Sir Graham's other Master and I are in perfect accord; whereas, being human, I am not convinced that Sir Graham and I should necessarily be.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

If I ever meet myself," said Zaphod, "I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

If I ever meet myself," said Zaphod, "I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me." Marvin

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?

This beast, this angel is both you and I

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

The world is full of good people who do bad things!

Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.

Thinking about it now, I see this as my first serious exposure to the 'with us or against us' mentality; the mentality that forces you to self-identify as one thing despite your certain knowledge that you are a bit of this and a bit of that.

Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie

This is probably true of human life everywhere - a light exterior hides a dark underside.