Quotes About Duality

Ne t'étonne de rien, la réalité a deux visages, les hommes aussi.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

THE ANTITHESIS OF MATERIAL REALISM is monistic idealism. In this philosophy, consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. Both the world of matter and the world of mental phenomena, such as thought, are determined by consciousness.

Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic

In just the first letter of the OED you will find words as magnificent as agathokakological (composed of good and evil), as delicately shaded as addubitation (the suggestion of doubt), and as odd as antithalian (opposed to fun or festivity). I

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

I thought your boyfriend died?" Nicky asked, and it was actually a good question, and I was so mad that I wasn't even embarrassed to answer him. "We were three," I choked out. "I had a night lover and a day lover," I said, and it felt like poetry, just to say it there in public in the middle of the quad, under the foggy sun. "And they loved each other like night loves the day. And then the night lover died, and the day lover and I were naked in the sunshine, with only ourselves for cover.

Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight.

Witch-heart, are you gold or black?

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I tried to understand how in every journey a man or woman was both hero and anti-hero at varying times. Years

But what had really happened, unfortunately, as ideal as it started out to be, was not that they had succeeded in becoming one, but that they had become neither.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Life is a tennis match between polar opposites. Winning and losing, love and hate, open and closed. It helps to recognize that painful fact early. Then recognize the polar opposites within yourself, and if you can't embrace them, or reconcile them, at least accept them and move on.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

lumea este totuna cu r?ul, un r?u mereu mai viclean dec?t poate b?nui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui.

Pros and cons Ins and outs Good or bad Happy or sad Mad or glad The balancing act From the poem The Balancing Act by Andreas Simic

That which nourishes me also destroys me.

I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.