Quotes About Duality

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.