Quotes About Duality

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

Good and evil lay side by side.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.

Brian A. McBride, Paradox

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

Light has no value if there is no darkness.

Unlike world I use my notebook from both side.

There is nothing wrong and nothing right. Our teachings and thoughts make it so.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

Life is simple. Life is complicated.

To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.

We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.