Quotes About Duality

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Man must become better and more evil.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.