Quotes About Duality

Opposites contend

war, the human antithesis of art

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

Nothing that is good has come into the world without bringing a corresponding evil

La naturaleza no sólo es armónica, sino terriblemente contradictoria y caótica

Lo bueno y lo malo están contenidos lógicamente en la naturaleza y en el fondo sólo son graduales diferencias a una misma cosa.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Everyone has in him something of the criminal, the genius, and the saint.

There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

we recognize all things by the existence of their opposite—day as distinguishable from night, failure from success, peace from war." We could add "safety from hazard." When

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin

When I'd looked back up at the window, the white curtain flapping in the gusty breeze, I'd felt both sadness and relief, the oppositional tug of heaviness and lightness, one lifting me up, one pushing me down. I understood then, Lulu and I had started something, something I'd always wanted, but also something I was scared of getting. Something ai wanted more of. And, also, something I wanted to get away from. The truth and its opposite.

Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda.

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.

She's the bridge between the doctors and the people, and you can see the strain of balancing between those two worlds.

She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are.

I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass. Hell, you're one of the punkest girls I know, no matter who you listen to or what you wear.