Quotes About Duality

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

nació en Santa Fe de Bogotá, ciudad esquizofrénica que en adelante se llamará indistintamente Santa Fe o Bogotá e incluso Esa Mierda de Sitio;

In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer's funeral.

There is the everyday truth of things, and there is the ideal. We must somehow live between them.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

Mühelos schlüpfte Gerhard in den rechten Schuh. Danach war es unmöglich, den Blick davon abzuwenden. Der Schuh adelte den Stoff der etwas zu dünnen und etwas zu blauen Hose, er adelte die ganze Person. Gerhard spazierte vor dem Spiegel auf und ab, den linken Fuß in der ausgetretenen Sandale, den rechten im eleganten Derby-Schuh, und sah die Beine von zwei völlig verschiedenen Menschen, die grausamerweise aus ein und demselben Körper hingen.

Plato takes the phenomenon of psychological conflict, being torn between two options, to show that the person so torn is not really a unity; he is genuinely torn between the motivational pull of two or more distinct parts of the soul.

the argument goes, the same thing can't be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions.

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

y ese "hombre bueno" del que hablan no lo he visto por ninguna parte. Pero quizá es que la naturaleza del ser humano es la que es y por tanto he visto a algunos de esos "hombres buenos" haciendo cosas tan horribles como las de los hombres a los que combaten.

Demostrar que algo no era correcto no significaba que lo opuesto lo fuera.

That seemed to cover a lot of life, he'd come to realize. Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

I can be sweet-looking innocent girl, but I may have a sensual side to me, which I would love to explore.

People think that I am very innocent and elegant, but I am the complete opposite of that.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.