Quotes About Duality

This hand can birth children. This hand can make music. This hand can kill you.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

Racionalismo es el seudónimo oficial del Gnosticismo.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

On first speaking to the man, his ingratiating smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, "What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!" yet during the next moment or two one would feel inclined to say nothing at all, and, during the third moment, only to say, "The devil alone knows what he is!

Eric the Evil scowled. Well, hell. He was jealous of himself.

Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

The Gnostics (also called Manichees) postulated that there were two gods -- the Christian God of goodness and light, and an evil anti-God of darkness. This theory proved an easy explanation of why there was evil in the world. It was rejected by Catholic Christianity in favor of the monotheistic view that there was one God who created only goodness. Evil was sin, a rebellious falling-away from God, a perversion of His goodness. This was the foundation of the evolving Christian concept of Satan.

But if the instinctual duality is Life and Death, our modification of Freud's ontology entails the hypothesis that Life and Death coexist in some undifferentiated unity at the animal level and that they could be reunified into some higher harmony in man

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

S? fie oare corpul ?i sufletul în vreun fel anume separate - ?i nu este semn de sl?biciune faptul c? afec?iunea unuia este totodat? ?i afec?iunea celuilalt - f?r? niciun amestec al voin?ei?

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Is a pea cut in half one wounded thing or two?

Sometimes she sounded as though she'd never left, and sometimes she sounded as though she'd never been near any part of the south. She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.

Ka?dy z nas siedzi okrakiem na granicy mi?dzy w?asnym ?wiatem wewn?trznym a ?wiatem zewn?trznym i niebezpiecznie balansuje. To bardzo niewygodna pozycja i niewielu udaje si? utrzyma? równowag?.

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.

Or to a different law that hasn't been demonstrated and that we haven't even thought of yet that says that you can doubly not exist in the same place?

Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.

Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.