Quotes About Duality

perhaps an equally dangerous, bewitching power resides in good as in evil. Essentially, the good needs to be regarded as an inherently no-less-dangerous principle than evil.

The endless dilemma of culture and nature is always a question of too much or too little, never of either-or.

enantiodromia

Numbers thus appear to be a tangible connection between the spheres of matter and psyche

Everything that accentuates this cleavage makes the patient worse, and everything that mitigates it tends to heal the patient. What drives people to war with themselves is the intuition or the knowledge that they consist of two persons in opposition to one another. The conflict may be between the sensual and the spiritual man, or between the ego and the shadow. It is what Faust means when he says "Two souls, alas, dwell in my breast apart." A neurosis is a dissociation of personality.

Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»

St. Thomas himself recalls the saying of Aristotle that "the thing is the whiter, the less it is mixed with black,"45 without mentioning, however, that the reverse proposition: "the thing is the blacker, the less it is mixed with white," not only has the same validity as the first but is also its logical equivalent. He might also have mentioned that not only darkness is known through light, but that, conversely, light is known through darkness.

it may prove to be that "psyche" and "matter" are actually the same phenomenon, one observed from "within" and the other from "without")

opposites, no judgment can be considered to be final

Eine große Wahrheit ist eine Wahrheit, deren Gegenteil immer noch eine Wahrheit ist." ---- "La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido.

there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

According to the central concepts of Taoism, tao is divided into a fundamental pair of opposites, yang and yin. Yang signifies warmth, light, maleness; yin is cold, darkness, femaleness. Yang is also heaven, yin earth. From the yang force arises shen, the celestial portion of the human soul, and from the yin force comes kwei, the earthly part. As a microcosm, man is a reconciler of the opposites. Heaven, man, and earth form the three chief elements of the world, the san-tsai.

La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido.

nou? tuturor ne merge ca fratelui Medardus din Elixirele diavolului a lui E.T.A. Hoffman: exist? undeva un frate neliniÈ™titor, groaznic, adic? o replic? a noastr? în persoan?, legat? de noi prin sânge, care conÈ›ine È™i adun? cu r?utate tot ceea ce noi am vrea din toat? inima s? dispar? sub mas?.

see both sides. [We] become aware not only of [our] moral inferiorities but also, automatically, of [our] good qualities. [We] rightly say, "I can't be as bad as all that." To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.

for in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order, in all caprice a fixed law, for everything that works is grounded on its opposite.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.

It seems like the good guys turned out to be the bad guys, and the bad guys weren't all that bad.

Richard II's famous lament: "I live with bread like you, feel want, / Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, / How can you say to me, I am a king?"18

Of course, the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people

Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.

It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?