Quotes About Duality

i am a woman and i am alone, and i cannot tell which one of the twoi love being more.

I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me things and I can relate on two levels simultaneously.

She's no angel.He's no saint.

It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who does. . . . Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which the villain and the hero are the same character.

And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.

Supernatural horror was one of the ways we found that would allow us to live with our double selves. By its employ, we discovered how to take all the things that victimize us in our natural lives and turn them into the very stuff of demonic delight in our fantasy lives. In story and song, we could entertain ourselves with the worst we could think of, overwriting real pains with ones that were unreal and harmless to our species.

Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily—by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn one edge toward himself.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Faith doesn't transport us to paradise immediately because we still struggle with sin. "Thus a Christian man is righteous and a sinner at the same time, holy and profane, an enemy of God and a child of God.

a duality in which there is no other opposition than that of the inner and the outer of the same unity, the polarity which is inherent in all Being,

en todo hay dos polos o aspectos opuestos, y que los "opuestos" son realmente sólo los dos extremos de la misma cosa, con una variación de grado entre ellos.

Bien y mal no son sino los polos de la misma cosa

Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

Todo es doble; todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son semiverdades; todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse. EL KYBALIÓN

Os instrutores previnem constantemente os seus discípulos contra o erro de omitir o outro lado de cada questão.

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.