Quotes About Duality

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

Nature works in parallel ways.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

the nature need the evil for existence

I 'am shaggy as rivers, forests and mountains My eyes see the universe natural and super My mind is of many cuts Non-identical I have fought demons Half-horse, half alligator I 'am victorious, I bled

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

There's always two sides to the coin if you have the patience to see.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.