Quotes About Duality

Then their quarrels, as he knew or would know sooner or later in the course of them, were about duality: They were two longing to be one, or one dividing relentlessly into two.

Let the end come as it may, here I am ready to profit by it: here I am, facing both ways, with perfect ease and security - a moral agriculturist, with his eye on two crops at once, and his swindler's sickle ready for any emergency. For the next week to come, the newspaper will be more interesting to me than ever. I wonder which side I shall eventually belong to?

Tüm ahlaki niteliklerin içinde en kolay çürümeye uÄŸrayan? ''vicdanl?l?k'' denilen niteliktir. Ä°nsan?n ruh hâline baÄŸl? olarak vicdan?, kimi zaman ona ceza kesebilecek en sert yarg?ç olur. Kimi zamansa rahatl?kla suç ortaklar? s?fat?yla hareket edebilen bu ikilinin aras?ndan su s?zmaz.

but he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth

For one and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent. For example, music is good to the melancholy, bad to mourners, and indifferent to the dead.

I find that a high in one area of my life often produces a low in another

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

Every harlot was a virgin once

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night...

The best often seem the worst

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.

But I aint so sho that ere a man has the right to say what is crazy and what aint. It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

The very fact that he could and did see no paradox in the fact that he took an active part in a partisan war and on the very side whose principles opposed to his own, was proof enough that he was two separate and complete people, one of whom dwelled by serene rules in a world where reality did not exist.

é preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. é assim que o mundo vai acabar.

es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

Trabajar con las dos manos es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.

He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger's pedestrian.

We are all philosophers here where I am, and we debate among many other things the question of where it is that we live. On that issue I am a liberal. I live in the interstice yes, but I live in both the city and the city.

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two