Quotes About Duality

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

My whole life I grew up thinking there is one Internet, but there are actually two, one in the rest of the world and one in China. The one in China is advanced and hi-tech, but it's a scary Internet.

Women have an advantage in that they can think both like a woman and a man.

I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to be aggressive or anything.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity.

I am fully persuaded that, out of his business, he is the most loyal and upright soul in Paris. There are two men in him; he is petty and great — a miser and a philosopher. If I were to die and leave a family behind me, he would be the guardian whom I should appoint. This was how I came to see Gobseck in this light, monsieur. I know nothing of his past life.

the truth can be both horrible and lovely at the same time.

The half of my own soul.

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

Looking back, I see that my friends and I were all in the same boat—heading for hell on earth and trying to reach heaven in church.

Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...

The mind naturally seeks harmony when presented with two opposing principles.

Now to think of concrete as both natural and artificial demands a greater degree of mental agility than most of us can manage. So much is invested in the absoluteness of this distinction between natural and artificial , so necessary is it to our whole cosmology, that to admit that something can be both of these would be just too anxious-inducing. To avoid this, we habitually operate on the assumption that concrete is just artificial, or alternatively, just natural, but never both.

No hay tal crudeza —recalca—. So pena que se llame así a trasplantar la vida como es. Las gentes a quienes espanta mi realidad son fariseos que viven, sin asustarse, la misma realidad de mi teatro.»

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature—a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Winwood Reade (1872)

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

El hombre y la mujer tienen una infinita capacidad para el autodesarrollo. E igualmente, una infinita capacidad para la autodestrucción.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).