Quotes About Duality

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Ever since Parsons had been a boy, however, the dark side of magic had captivated him. "I know that witchcraft is mostly nonsense, except where it is a blind," he wrote to Crowley in 1943, "but I am so nauseated by Christian and Theosophical guff about the 'good and the true' that I prefer the appearance of evil to that of good.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good." She took a step toward him. "Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the war.

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.

Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

Good and evil are silly lies, nonsense put forth to plague honest sensible men.

A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

I love beauty, but sometimes a thing lovely to behold conceals vileness and evil within.

In his dreams Jaime always had two hands; one was made of gold, but it worked just like the other.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.

madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion.

If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.