Quotes About Duality

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

A great book is like great evil.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.