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Quotes About Duality

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
~ Virginia Woolf
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
~ John Mayer
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Imagination can create lies that duals truths.
~ Lionel Suggs
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
~ Khalil Gibran
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
~ Carl Sandburg
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
~ Terry Pratchett
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
~ P.C. Cast, Betrayed
Happiness was born a twin.
~ Lord Byron
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
~ Arlo Guthrie
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
~ J. K. Rowling
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
~ Laozi
... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I was good and bad, but never wicked.
~ Anne Rice
In all darkness, there is a light and in all light there is a darkness.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO.
~ Joey Lawsin
Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.
~ Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.
~ Anais Nin