Quotes About Duality

What solitary child hasn't wished for a twin, Mr. Birdsey? Hasn't imagined that a double exists somewhere in the world? It's a hungering for human connection— another way of sheltering oneself against the storm.

Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.

With his finely honed ability to see both beauty and ugliness, Leonardo was able to create a satirical combination in his grotesques. As he wrote in his notes for his treatise on painting, "If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies within his power to create them; and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, buffoonish, or ridiculous, or pitiable, he can be lord thereof." 20

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

Her name was Alana Ash, and she was everything a happily married man could want in a prostitute.

I inhaled deeply, feeling of two minds about the benefits and detriments of smoking. On one hand, tobacco robbed me of my wind, but on the other, it gave me something to do while the devil was tempting me!

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

All carry and embrace the opposites of yin and yang, or the feminine and masculine principles. This verse reinforces the idea that blending these seemingly opposing forces is the way to achieve harmony.

I feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.

The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.

In the same way that Morse code reduces written language to dots and dashes, the spoken version of the code reduces speech to just two vowel sounds. The key word here is two. Two types of blinks, two vowel sounds, two different anything, really, can with suitable combinations convey all types of information.

Pain and joy are also part of the polyphony of life, and ... they can exist independently side by side.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

Would you rather be more abominable than you sound or sound more abominable than you are? The answer is I would rather be neither but I am both.

I'm not a superhero. I'm background. I'm a good person wrapped in mediocre soul. I want to be better. I really do. But even now in my greatest moment I know this is as good as it will ever get for me and it's not that good. I have a small heart, a dark heart, a heart filled with exactly equal amounts of good and evil, one that is weak and will take us only so far, but for now it propels us higher and higher and higher.

We're two sides of an infinitesimally thin coin. Slice the coin thinner and thinner, and we get closer and closer to each other. We can slice it arbitrarily thin, let the limit of the thickness approach zero. Slice it until there's no one or nothing in between, until we meet at zero.

Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero

Ameresti il tuo nemico, ameresti il tuo nemico, io lo sto già facendo pare sia il mio hobby preferito! "La bella e la bestia

He was a liar and a charmer, a heartbreak and a brute.

you must trust your truest truth, even though there are other truths running alongside it

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.