Quotes About Duality

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

Never and forever are usually neither

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

You will think in terms of opposites—when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

Si tienes una cara dulce y un aire inocente, emite indicios de algo oscuro, e incluso vagamente cruel, en tu carácter.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

One could never be sure with Oliver. Ambition and godliness, self-interest and the higher cause, the base metal entwined with the gold.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance

Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.

The hammer could be either a weapon or a tool. Perrin had a choice, just as everyone who followed him had a choice. Hopper had a choice. The wolf had made that choice, risking more in defense of the Light than any human — save Perrin — would ever understand.

The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.

Semak berduri hitam pun terkadang berbunga, indah dan putih di antara durinya Verin

Two people were not one

Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about.

The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat

We have multiple dichotomies in our heads, and ones that seem inevitable and crucial can, under the right circumstances, have their importance evaporate in an instant.

He felt himself, in a way, torn between two worlds: a solid, bourgeois world where ultimately everything was ordered and rational, as he was accustomed to from home, and an untrammelled one full of darkness, blood, and undreamt-of surprises.

Every man is two people, and one hardly knows whether it is in the morning or in the evening that he reverts to his real self.

Chaque vérité éternelle existe en double, en multiples exemplaires.