Quotes About Duality

si un pueblo alcanza un gran nivel de civilización se desarrolla al mismo tiempo también un cierto grado de corrupción.

balancing opposing influences

Dominant modes of perception based on reductionism, duality and linearity are unable to cope with equality in diversity, with forms and activities that are significant and valid,

As the term wears on I sometimes feel undermined by a sub-textual doppelganger, a shadow Freud haunting the classroom.

like increases like" and "opposites balance," give us all the information we need to maintain or restore our health

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

The irony is that we make up the eight worldly dharmas. We make them up in reaction to what happens to us in this world. They are nothing concrete in themselves. Even more strange is that we are not all that solid either. We have a concept of ourselves that we reconstruct moment by moment and reflexively try to protect. But this concept that we are protecting is questionable. It's all "much ado about nothing"—like pushing and pulling a vanishing illusion.

Within every beast there's always some beauty!

People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.

Es beweist nichts; ist jeder Beweiskraft entzogen durch das Vorteile-Nachteile-Denken, das böseste der Lebensprinzipien. Alles hat nun einmal seine Vor- und Nachteile, und schon wird das Unzumutbare zumutbar - als Nachteil der wiederum nichts als eine notwendige Eigentheit jedes Vorteils ist.