Quotes About Duality

The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not.

40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells. 41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

Duality begat the Conjunction.

Debo comunicarle una cosa muy importante, monsieur, todos damos asco. Somos todos maravillosos, y todos damos asco.

Nous sommes tous merveilleux, et nous sommes tous répugnants, Alessandro Baricco

Siamo gente schizofrenica, che al mattino ragione come Hegel, e dopo pranzo si muta in pesce, e respira con le branchie.

Damos asco todos. Somos maravillosos todos, y damos todos asco

Everyone can be sick in their soul and still think they're the good guys.

There were times when one thought the opposite of what one really felt. That was very common, and this was an example of exactly that.

Sometimes wickedness prevails.

A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.

How complex this world is, he thought; how easily may things appear to be one thing and then prove to be another. And how easy it was to see the worst

No woman can be truly beautiful who is not, also sometimes, truly ugly.

They have a saying, the French, that no woman, can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes truly ugly.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

He says we've evolved to be selfish, cruel, and horrible in every way. But we've also evolved to be compassionate, loving, loyal, and amazing in every way." "Right,

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

No one wants to share their man, after all," continued Knight calmly when Jenna's scream subsided. "Even if the person they're sharing with is themselves. So now that he's all yours, Jenna, how about it?

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

Hell, I was pretty sure I still loved her, even though I now hated her also.