Quotes About Duality

Well, yes, and I suppose one could say that architecture has produced both museums and gas chambers, that classical music both stimulates economic activity and inspired the Nazis, and so on. But this strange equivocation between the utilitarian and the nefarious was not applied to other disciplines, and the statement gave no indication that we might have good reasons to prefer understanding and know-how to ignorance and superstition

Human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

There's two to wash, two to dry; There's two who argue, two who cry; There's two to kiss, two to hug; and best of all, there's two to love!

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Love turns one person into two; and two into one.

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you're so engrossed in what you're doing you don't notice–it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos.