Quotes About Duality

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces--growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying, and at any given moment in our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between those two forces.

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces—growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying, and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces.

God say different things. Say, "I will smite my enemies." Then he tell you to, "Turn the other cheek." That don't get you nothing but two broke jaws.

Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.

I think you're healthy in certain ways, and I think you're a pathetic disaster in others.

Oh, miseria de la existencia humana que oscila eternamente entre la escasez y el exceso!».

Love is not only an energizing force, but an individualizing force. It dissolves separation and yet creates individuality. It is, again, the primal paradox.

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist. A valuable insight of Witchcraft, shared by many earth-based religions, is that polarities are in balance, not at war.

Vatra je moja nežnost, jer an?eo i zver u moju dušu padoše zagrljeni...

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

I cannot be assured of exactly what I created be it madness and monster or beauty and light.

War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously.

She was certainly schizophrenic. Perhaps she was no longer sane.

A lot of it is good, but a lot of it is bad. Again, I don't know why this always happens.

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

Their myths understand that whoever created this baffling world, with its cruelties, wonders, caprices, beauties, madness, and injustice, must themselves have been cruel, wonderful, capricious, beautiful, mad, and unjust. The Greeks created gods that were in their image: warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate but vengeful.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!

So, one can regard the pair of particles as a single particle moving on a closed loop in space-time. When the pair is moving forward in time (from the event at which it appears to that at which it annihilates), it is called a particle. But when the particle is traveling back in time (from the event at which the pair annihilates to that at which it appears), it is said to be an antiparticle traveling forward in time.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful.

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

The George George Stark George Starked over the Starky Stark.

I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.