Quotes About Duality

Fique a saber, padre, que os opostos são os mais iguais. Não acredita, veja: o fogo não é quem se parece mais ao gelo? Ambos queimam e, nos dois, só através da morte o homem pode entrar.

Não é que seja infeliz. Eu não sou é feliz. E explica: a ausência dupla de felicidade e infelicidade é ainda mais penosa que o sofrimento. O verdadeiro castigo não é o inferno com as suas chamas devoradoras. A punição maior é o purgatório eterno.

O português confessa sentir inveja de não ter duas línguas. E poder usar uma delas para perder o passado. E outra para ludibriar o presente.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

Parochialism remains the Danes' defining characteristic, but their radically recalibrated sense of identity and national pride has created a curious duality best described as a kind of "humble pride," though many often mistake it for smugness.

You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

ridge riding, to use Alvin Gouldner's term—between the Scylla of positivism and the Charybdis of conventionalist constructivism.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

Koliko dugo duša može biti kušana? Koliko dugo može izdržati? ?ovjek sam mira,ali duboko u mojoj duši drijema ubojica,koji u trenutku ludosti može zgrabiti oru?e zla u nastojanju da porazi zlo. Tako bih bio dvostruko poražen!

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming

The world is a confusing place, meaningful and meaningless at once.

The Man With Two Faces

Or Einstein regenerated, living a life on top of the life he's already led, doomed by the accomplishments of his former self.

Grief is schizophrenic. You find yourself of two minds, the one that governs your days up until the moment of grief—the one that opens easily to memories of the girl at six, twelve, eighteen—and the one that seeks to destroy everything afterward.

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it.

The two that is one, The one that is all

The Realistic Vision recognizes the need for strict moral education through parents, family, friends, and community because people have a dual nature of being selfish and selfless, competitive and cooperative, greedy and generous, and so we need rules and guidelines and encouragement to do the right thing.