Quotes About Duality

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non -A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

If it takes night to make day, pain to know pleasure, black to make white, then doesn't it stand to reason that the depth of our friendships could be measured by the quality of our enemies?

Jahn and Dunne believe that since all known physical processes possess a wave/particle duality, it is not unreasonable to assume that consciousness does as well. When it is particlelike, consciousness would appear to be localized in our heads, but in its wavelike aspect, consciousness, like all wave phenomena, could also produce remote influence effects. They believe one of these remote influence effects is PK.

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.

L'homme n'est ni ange, ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête" [El hombre no es ni ángel ni bestia y, por desgracia, el que quiere hacerse el ángel hace el tonto].

Le pecore bianche fanno «Beh!», le pecore nere fanno «Meh!».

A code resembled a coin with two sides, heads and tails, which were contradictory: both accessible and secret.

How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute... And rolling my eyes the next.

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

I feel Italian, but I also feel French," she said. "Italy is deeper. France is strong, but it's after." Actually, one of the surprises about meeting [Valeria Bruni Tedeschi] is how Italian she seems. Though she has no trace of an Italian accent when speaking French—and says that, in Italian, she shows signs of having lived in France—she sounds Italian when speaking English. There is no suggestion of French at all.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Between jest and earnest.

The devil is an angel too.

Hay quien cree seguir una estrella; yo creo seguir una doble estrella, melliza. Y esa estrella no es sino la proyección misma del sendero al cielo, la proyección del azar.

Hanefitai ir krikš?ionys, žydai ir magai tuš?iai jo ieškojo.Žem?je t?ra dvejopi žmon?s. Protingi, kurie neturi tik?jimo, ir tikintieji, kurie neturi proto

As I said, as indeed Orwell said, there is unproductive vagueness, but there is also dried out precision. We need both ways of thinking. Vagueness and precision, wide focus and narrow.

Just because you were human didn't mean you weren't a monster.

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.