Quotes About Duality

Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

Essentially, Descartes started a belief system that imposed a duality between the concepts of mind and matter. For centuries, that division stood as the accepted understanding of the nature of reality.

She was half talking to herself or, maybe more accurately, talking with her own private devil, a demon that just also happened to have Ig Perrish's face.

There's always a little decency in the worst places . . . and always a little secret selfishness in the best.

But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street?

A Escama do Dragão é igual a qualquer outra coisa que produz fogo, enfermeira Grayson. Pode-se usá-la para incendiar um lugar… ou para iluminar o caminho rumo a algo melhor.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

Monogamy is defined by what it is not, just as much as by what it is," I say, "We couldn't have monogamy without infidelity the same as we couldn't have sad without happy, or down without up. By fucking around in secret, within a relationship defined as monogamous, aren't I just playing the devil in monogamy's Sunday school pageant?

I have two wolves inside me" he tells the chief. "One wolf is hopeful, spirited, and kind, and the other wolf is mean, competitive, and evil. Who will win?" he asks. The grandfather pats the young warrior on his head and says, "The one who will win is the one you feed.

Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, And each will wrestle for the mastery there.

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht, wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.

You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one is striving to forsake its brother.

Part of that power which would Do evil constantly and constantly does good.

Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?