Quotes About Duality

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having 'no edge' being simple and worse, harmless.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Oh, if men were the brutes and women the angels—if it were as simple as that. (Virginia Woolf's thought in The Hours)

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Shining a light creates shadows

Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness and every weakness a strength.

There will no longer be truth and falsehood. There will just be stories, with two sides to them.

Morgan Stanley wanted to be able to trade for itself in a way it could not trade for its customers; it just didn't want to seem as if it wanted to.

She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.

The nearest we ever come to knowing truth is when we are witness to a paradox.

Half the life of cities occurs at night,' Olive Lawrence warned us. 'There's a more uncertain morality then

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

The Buddhists are probably right about chopping onions: It's all a matter of how you choose to see and experience it, as a chore to resist or a kind of path—a practice, even. Depending on the context, the very same activity can have diametrically opposed meanings.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.