Quotes About Duality

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.

Twin one, twin too!

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

A Gemini is a cross between a drunk and a genius.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Israel on his lips.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

In the view of one prominent alienist, she was "a woman of dual personality: a kind and indulgent mother at certain times and at others a demon without fear of God of man or of the law.

Then I stare at my face in the mirror for a minute or two, wondering if it feels like mine. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the dark count is invisible in mirrors and I often feel something similar is true of me too. I can't feel any deep relationship between the face that is mine and the person I am. Like they're two different things. I don't

Aber vielleicht war es das alles zugleich, unter Vernachlässigung des Gesetzes des ausgeschlossenen Dritten und zur ewigen Beschämung derjenigen, die glaubten, etwas davon zu verstehen.

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

all things that seem good and evil are the opposite ends of one line, and it is difficult to say where evil ends and good begins, for these are comparative terms. A lesser good would seem evil when compared with a greater good, and the lesser evil in comparison with the greater evil would appear good. If there were no evil, good would not have been valued. Without injustice, justice would not have been appreciated. Therefore the whole of life's joy is expressed in duality.

life is one, but that it exists in two aspects. First as immortal, all-pervading and silent; and secondly as mortal, active, and manifest in variety.

All situations of life are tests to bring out the real and the false.

I think most people are really two people, the person on the inside that we keep hidden, and the person on the outside that we dress up and fix up and show to the world as a form of protection.

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"? —STEPHEN SONDHEIM, INTO THE WOODS Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) —WALT WHITMAN, "SONG OF MYSELF

It's not that Poppy's the girl and Claude's the boy. There's boy and girl in both of them. They both have what they parade and what they hide. It's that Poppy's the happy child, and Claude is the sad one