Quotes About Duality

I look at her, then at Tasha, and I feel the wondrous blend of bliss and fear. They--bliss and fear--are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.

You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

What made me pause here was the pure dichotomy.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

But I'm a real Gemini; I'm completely different at home than when I'm on tour.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.

To make one, there must be two.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

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

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.