Quotes About Duality

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

To get what I wanted I became the monster I've always hated...

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

You are too bright, my Camille, too beautiful for so much darkness. And yet, you would walk under the dark of the moon

I call to the mysterious one who yet Shall walk the wet sand by the water's edge, And look most like me, being indeed my double, And prove of all imaginable things The most unlike, being my anti-self, And, standing by these characters, disclose All that I seek; and whisper it as though He were afraid the birds, who cry aloud Their momentary cries before it is dawn, Would carry it away to blasphemous men.

Alçak gönüllülük erdem, gurursa kusurdur. "Biz" tanr?dan, "Ben" ÅŸeytandan gelir.

Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen and three boys, Larry, Timmy, and Dale, and lives in a nice house in Montclair, N. J. That's me. Then there's the one you read about in the papers who is a kind of a comic-strip character, like Li'l Abner or Joe Palooka.

The living and the dead, The awake and the sleeping, The young and the old are all one and the same. When the ones change, they become the others. When those shift again, they become these again. God is day and night. God is winter and summer. God is war and peace. God is fertility and famine. He transforms into many things. Day and night are one. Goodness and badness are one. The beginning and the end of a circle are one.

The skinned neck, draped gracefully on the floor, seemed to be wearing a cat mask. The cat was only an exterior, life had posed as a cat.

See? The line between good things and bad things is very thin. Most of the time, you can find them at the same place.

You can two-time satan But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

Still, humans have a wonderful capacity to believe in contradictions.

los humanos poseen una maravillosa capacidad para creer en contradicciones. De manera que no debería ser ninguna sorpresa que millones de piadosos cristianos, musulmanes y judíos consigan creer a la vez en un Dios omnipotente y en un Diablo independiente.

no debería ser ninguna sorpresa que millones de piadosos cristianos, musulmanes y judíos consigan creer a la vez en un Dios omnipotente y en un Diablo independiente.