Quotes About Duality

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

I remember it when I used to go out, I used to dress as Superman, but then I used to dress as Superman dressed as Clark Kent. So, actually, I would be like a little seven-year-old boy going out in a business suit. But I would never expose the fact that I was Superman, but I knew, that should there be any trouble, I could take care of it.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.

Tame Impala has two lives. One is the album, which is like a producer, and the other life is like a band: more of a live incarnation where we're basically a covers band for the albums that I produce.

Everyone in the world is a Charlie. The trick is to figure out which Charlie you're going to be. Charlie Manson. Charlie Starkweather. Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "Charlie Chaplin." "Charlie Parker." "Charly… from Flowers for Algernon." "Charlie Brown.

God's nature has always been multifold, and never more than now. He dances with a dove in one hand and an ax in the other.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

They are the same and they are not the same. They are the same and they hate each other for it.

Let's say that God is the space between two men and the Devil is the space between two men.

There is no good or evil, only spirit and matter. Only movement toward the light - and away from it.

The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

Cuál es el opuesto de dos? Tu y yo en soledad

Luther said that every Christian is "simul justus et peccator, comprehensor et viator"—"simultaneously righteous and sinful, a man who has reached the goal and one who reaches out toward it.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina