Quotes About Duality

that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of good, and the devil take the hindmost

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

Although it was sometimes confusing or even contradictory, having to listen to two different realities was beneficial to me in the long term.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.

In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries

She is just a perfect angel, while I am only angelic in spots and demonic in other spots.

Bayan Allan der ki, ne zaman bizi zorlayan bir ÅŸey düÅŸünsek ayn? zamanda ona kar?? kullanaca??m?z hoÅŸ bir ÅŸey de düÅŸünmeliymiÅŸiz.

It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.

He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn't fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.

Dr. King's fitting description of the good life, 'a creative synthesis of opposites.'

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

Be the opposite of you :

La vida siempre nos ofrece dos posibilidades: el día y la noche; el águila o la serpiente, la construcción o la destrucción, el castigo o el perdón, pero siempre hay una tercera posibilidad oculta que unifica a las dos: descúbrela. Después

Black and white has more emotion.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Edward glanced at me, then back at Olaf. The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover. But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.

I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I've found that it's so often the other way around.

we're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person; not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation...but still thinks puppies are really cute.