Quotes About Duality

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Just as Diana Prince is never around when Wonder Woman shows up, Venus is either a Morning Star or an Evening Star, never both simultaneously.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

went home thinking about the duality of being an immigrant, our split identities, the cleaving of our hearts and bodies—half of our heart remained in our homeland, the other was here with us. One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

By all the eagle in thee, all the dove.

But after you have been here for a while you realize that inside one country there are two separate worlds.

Zen Buddhist dictum that "the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

They have to square their well-earned reputation for kindness and hospitality with their equally well-earned reputation for violence and bigotry.

For inspiration, he read Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and listened to the Drive-By Truckers singing about the duality of pride and shame they felt as white Southerners.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

For everything in life, there's a counterpart in afterlife. This includes the most beautiful as well as the ugliest of phenomena.

Here's the thing about an apple: it sticks in the throat. It's a package deal: lust and understanding. Immortality and death. Sweet pulp with cyanide seeds. It's a bang on the head that births up whole sciences. A golden delicious discord, the kind of gift chucked into a wedding feast that leads to endless war. It's the fruit that keeps the gods alive. The first, worst crime, but a fortunate windfall. Blessed be the time that apple taken was.

That's the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego.

It was like so, but wasn't.

The single best thing you can do for the world. It occurs to her: The problem begins with that word world. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can't escape.

The single best thing you can do for the world. It occurs to her: the problem begins with that word world. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can't escape. She lifts the glass and hears her father read out loud: Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things.