Quotes About Duality

Astronomers saw me that way. "Cliff, he's not much of an astronomer, but what a computer hacker!" (The computer folks, of course, had a different view: "Cliff's not much of a programmer, but what an astronomer!" At best, graduate school had taught me to keep both sides fooled.)

Behind every reflection is a shadow. But behind any shadow, there is no reflection.

The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.

Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.

Graspings: wholes and not wholes, convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.

From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.

The way upward and the way downward are the same.

Si no hubiera un constante juego entre los contrastes, el mundo dejaría de existir

The road up and the road down is one and the same

Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.

On the outside grows the furside, on the inside grows the skinside;So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside.

Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.

A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.