Quotes About Duality

he wrote in retirement: "Two magnitudes are complementary when the measurement of one of them prevents the accurate simultaneous measurement of the other.

life seems to be a collision of opposites.

The two alternatives are always exclusionary, usually in an angry way: things are either totally right or totally wrong, with me or against me, male or female, Democrat or Republican, Christian or pagan, on and on and on. The binary mind provides quick security and false comfort, but never wisdom. It thinks it is smart because it counters your idea with an opposing idea. There is usually not much room for a "reconciling third." I see this in myself almost every day.

Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!

Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?

Like many fathers, Lincoln's now had two permanent residences—one in Dunbar, Arizona, the other in his only son's head.

The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.

Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half—man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their lives searching for their other halves.

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.

There cannot be light without darkness, nor darkness without light. You must have the contrast for both to exist.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

Don't mind Mallory. She's a sweetheart, once you get past the fact that she's a horrible person.

Sometimes, even Loki can be right.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

Teddy thought of his wife and his sister as two sides of the same shining coin. Nancy was an idealist, Ursula a realist; Nancy an optimist with a lively heart, while Ursula's spirit was freighted with the grief of history. Ursula was forever cast out of Eden and making the best of it while Nancy, cheerful and undaunted, was sure her search for the gate back into the garden would be successful.

But appearance and reality were different things, weren't they?

She was the deer. She was the arrow, She was the queen. She was the contradiction, She was the synthesis. Juliet ran.

You can't have it both ways," one of her girlfriends said. "Tough and tender, men are like steaks, it's one or the other." Tough and tender, a contradiction in terms, Hegelian synthesis.

Sometimes a house has two histories. One that's less well known. One that people have an interest in keeping less well known.

At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Edna lived a dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions

the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.