Quotes About Duality

I'm a perfectionist, which is bad at times but very good at other times.

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

Thus, with the good we have the bad: we have the opposed movements of a dancer guided by one artistic plan; we recognize in his steps the good as against the bad, and see that in the opposition lies the merit of the design.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't

This business of Chaos versus Law, for example, turned out to be more than religious dogma. It was a practical fact of existence, here.

What is our greatest strength when we are balanced often is our worst weakness when we are out of sorts.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

There's a dark side to everything.

There are two sides to every question.

Black souls wear white shirts.

How many daily read the holy books, and yet pursue their course of evil.

Light in the streets, shadows in the house. #CVirusTruth

Many people preach righteousness and perform sins.

Street angel, house devil.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.

All these psalm-singing hypocrites who spend half their lives in church, imploring God Almighty to give them wings like doves to fly to Paradise, and when their friends get their wings, they smother themselves in black crape and refer to the departed as 'poor'—there's no consistency in it and no sense!

When we can no longer divide, we are beyond Nature and approach the causal Cause, the abstract Cause. This is why the whole of metaphysics, all creation, is situated between the numbers One and Two.