Quotes About Duality

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.

2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.

There's two heads to every coin.

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

I might act like a rhinoceros, but I'm a unicorn.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

She is so tiresome. 'Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I'll be both!

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, " Petra said.

I call the right axe Sorrow, " she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.