Quotes About Duality

For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

BOTH READ THE BIBLE DAY AND NIGHT, BUT THOU READ BLACK WHERE I READ WHITE.

Je to konflikt medzi Dionýzom a Apolónom. Odveký boj medzi srdcom a rozumom, a tie chcú máloedy to isté.

Elliptical orbits. Langdon recalled that much of Galileo's legal trouble had begun when he described planetary motion as elliptical. The Vatican exalted the perfection of the circle and insisted heavenly motion must be only circular. Galileo's Illuminati, however, saw perfection in the ellipse as well, revering the mathematical duality of its twin foci. The Illuminati's ellipse was prominent even today in modern Masonic tracing boards and footing inlays.

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell.

Was I a swordsman then? sends Johnny. Or a poet? [Yes There is never one without the other]

I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis—the God of Abraham.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality," she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. "The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

My newfound awareness was both gauntlet and gift. The choice wasn't to see it as one or the other. It was to embrace both.

The psychoanalyst who coined it, Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attended them

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And t'will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. — Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, 1701

Neredeyse iÅŸitilir biçimde, Nas?l bu kadar ikiyüzlü olabiliyorsun? dedim, Her ne kadar yetinmeye çal??san da kurtulmak için can? gönülden dua ettiÄŸin bu duruma ÅŸükran duyarm?? gibi yap?yorsun?

Lo que constituye la salvación de un hombre, es la ruina de otro

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

the fact that both of these hostile camps could make use of the same examples to prove diametrically opposed interpretations suggests a truth about how all of us read and interpret literary texts—one that is, possibly, rooted in the mysteries of human nature itself. Where some people see chaos and incoherence, others will find sense and symmetry and wholeness.

The sage is thus capable of acting with lightning-bolt speed, because dualistic thought no longer paralyzes him. His acts are instantaneous and carriers of light; this is what is called nonaction.

compassion, because it implies a slightly condescending duality, whereas love is a non-differentiated state.

The Bodhisattva does not differentiate between nirvana and samsara. For him, full consciousness of reality is nirvana. He therefore has no place to go to and even less to wait for, because there is no duality between worldly experience and nirvana.

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.