Quotes About Duality

I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono's head in orange wavy letters: "I … am … the … devil … and I am … just … like … you …

All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.

But maybe I was more like Lena Dunham on her TV series Girls, which examined her own generation with a caustic, withering eye yet also remained supportive. And this is crucial: you can be both. In order to be an artist, to raise yourself above the overreacting fear-based din in which criticism is considered elitist, you need to be both.

the right slit—and since

Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the capacity for its opposite.

Admit it, you're probably a very different person at work than you are at home. Everyone needs to be someone else sometimes.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess. And everything awful used to be something good.

Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?

Matter can simultaneously be defined as a solid (particle) and as an immaterial force field (wave).

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.

The light extends like truth, the truth like a hand extending at the same time as it recedes. What is that like?

Twin bells, those questions

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, "I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you

observar que alguns são miseráveis enquanto outros são prósperos é mais ou menos como afirmar que o mundo contém ao mesmo tempo detetives e criminosos. E é verdade, mas isso encobre o fato de que existem detetives porque existem criminosos...

There is nothing that exists that has only one side, even a piece of paper thin as it is has two sides.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.